Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . Fig. 1.—Ceres main of Turlock Canal. Fig. 2.—Typical concrete check with automatic regulating gate, Turlock Irrigation District. Bui. 2—(p. 80) IRRIGATION DISTRICTS IN CALIFORNIA. 81 The increased expenditures on capital account since 1901 have beenmainly applied to improvements in the upper works, the constructionof the Davis foothill reservoir, the construction of new laterals fromthe old system or the extension of laterals already built, the constructionof the high-line canal
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . Fig. 1.—Ceres main of Turlock Canal. Fig. 2.—Typical concrete check with automatic regulating gate, Turlock Irrigation District. Bui. 2—(p. 80) IRRIGATION DISTRICTS IN CALIFORNIA. 81 The increased expenditures on capital account since 1901 have beenmainly applied to improvements in the upper works, the constructionof the Davis foothill reservoir, the construction of new laterals fromthe old system or the extension of laterals already built, the constructionof the high-line canal miles long, together with various crossditches and laterals, and the substitution of permanent for the formertemporary structures in different parts of the system. Improvementsin the upper works have included new headworks and controlling gates,the elimination of about 900 lineal feet of wooden flumes and the con-struction in their place of concrete-lined hydraulic fills, the concretingof points in the main canal where seepage was heavy and the banksunsafe, and the reconstruction or the widening and deepening of por-tions of the main ca
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