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Show -7- The conference board incorporated in its report of June 7, 1911 (H. Doc. No. 504, 62d Cong., 2d sess., p. 161), the recommendation "that further work should be undertaken at once and in the following order: (a) The levees north of Volcano Lake should be raised, strengthened, and extended; (b) the existing levees along the west bank of Colorado River to the Abejas should be repaired and protected." On page 160, caption 3 (ibid.), they further recommend that in addition steps be taken to "hold the river by adequate bank revetment practically on its present alignment." Gen. W. L. Marshall, consulting engineer for the Department of the Interior, concurs with these recommendations. On page 185, caption 8 (ibid.), he says: To revet the banks in the most substantial way yet developed and as applied along our western rivers, as far as a breach directly into the Imperial Canal or Alamo River can take place, then to construct and riprap the levee north of Volcano Lake, is in my mind the best possible solution in so far as affects the interests of the United States. As is pointed out by Gen. Marshall: The greatest and most imminent danger to United States lands and property lies in a possible breach in the banks and levee on the west bank of the Colorado River in the first 8 miles below the Mexican-California boundary, thus admitting water directly into the Imperial Canal. (Ibid., p. 185, cap. 11.) The serious cutting of the western bank at a point known as House 7 suggests the necessity for adopting |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |