Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . ides have been gradually strengthenedand raised, it will be found both possible and expedient, tentatively toraise the crests of the weirs now constructed. When once this isaccomplished this would cause a complete metamorphosis of conditionsin Sacramento Valley, to wit: First—Strong tidal action up to and beyond Sacramento City. Second—A water channel making possible deep-water navigation toSacramento City, and bringing Colusa, Marysville, andpoints beyond, within reach of ships
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . ides have been gradually strengthenedand raised, it will be found both possible and expedient, tentatively toraise the crests of the weirs now constructed. When once this isaccomplished this would cause a complete metamorphosis of conditionsin Sacramento Valley, to wit: First—Strong tidal action up to and beyond Sacramento City. Second—A water channel making possible deep-water navigation toSacramento City, and bringing Colusa, Marysville, andpoints beyond, within reach of ships drawing ten or —A thorough reclamation of the five basins (so called), creat-ing conditions of wealth and prosperity for the waste landssituated westerly and northerly of Sacramento City as faras Jacinto and Chico, similar to those now existing on thefertile bottom lands on the lower reaches of the river. Having reached this conclusion, your Committee have earnestlysought a remedy for the deplorable conditions existing, and there is no CROSS-SECTION W---^^^^ \/,,, ?:%,-/-> //, I |)|. Sheet Pf/e. En/argeof scaleD/mensions. 2xJ2x/2 f^J^ REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS. 25 doubt in their minds that the first and main cause of the present troubleis the fact that the channel below Rio Vista is too narrow and tortuousto admit a free passage to tide water of the constantly increasing massesof water which accumulate at that point at flood stages. As we deem it wise to limit our efforts at present to the correction ofthe Rio Vista channel, we wish to call special attention to the condi-tions now existing there. On the right bank of Sacramento River, between Rio Vista and Col-linsville, the Montezuma Hills prevent a lateral discharge of floodwaters to the west. In former years they overtopped the left banksand found an easy escape easterly to San Joaquin tide water. Thebuilding of levees on Brannan and Sherman islands opposite and abovethe Montezuma Hill
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