Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley

by Robert Kelley

Book Overview

In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after a seventy-year struggle to devise and build an intricate thousand miles of levees and drains. Robert Kelley sets that battle within the encompassing national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520214285
• ISBN13: 9780520214286
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"