Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-18

with an inside slope of not less thaH to L.
Estimated cost of the work, 81, 900.
Section 12-The Sacramento river levee
Immediately below Y street. Here work has
Just been finished, making the levee feet
above high water, and Il feet wide on top to
point 2, 600 feet below the city limits. This
is considered ample, SIS the levee here is only
a secondary protection, it having been
recently strengthened to prevent the posi-
bility of q break occurring 80 near the city as
to cause the back water to overtop the
street levee.
Section 13-Y street levee from the Sacra-
me nto river levee easterly. Here the levee is &c
feet wide on top and q feet above the high
est bsckwster known from the river levee to
Twenty-frst street. East of Twenty first street
it is 20 feet wide on top and four feet above
the highest back water. From Twenty first
TO Twenty eighth streets there is grsveled
road on top of the levee. The outer slope of
the Y-street levee has rank growth of Bsr-
muds grass from base to tcp. 1t is not
thought probable that the back water will
ever attain sufficient hight to run over even
the lowest part of the Y.street levee; there
can be no currents to undermine it and the
wash of waves cannot injure its outer face.
But rather than leave an element of doubt
to cause distrust, it is recommended to COM
plete the work on this section to the original
plan, so that it shall be four feet above back
water and 20 feet wide on top. Estimated
cost, Sc, 600.
In review of the work it was pointed out
that the point of greatest immediate danger
is beyond Brighton Junction, where it is posi-
Bile, in case of such food as that of 1862,
for the water to pass around the end of the
levee and enter the city from the east The
lowest elevation of levee top is from Seventh
and d streets to Front and | streets, and
thence along the river front to o street. The
narrowest width of levee is from Brighton
junction to Burns slough, from the American
river railroad bridge to Sixteenth street, and
from S to Y street; other points requiring
attention, the American river at Smiths Gar
dens, the same opposite Twenty. third to
Twenty street, snd the Y-strest levee.
Summarized estimates of the cost of the
work were as follows
Estimate No l This estimate is for the
work most nee sssary to be done and should
be carried out the coming season without fail.
Work beyond Brighton JucctiOn, SIC. goo;
work on American river, near Smiths Car
dens, $500 work on American river opposite
Twenty third to Twenty eighth streets,
$1,000. Total, so, 500.
Estimate No. 2 This estimate includes
the items in Estimate No. and such other
work as should be done with as little delay
as possible. Add to Estimate No. (which
was So, 5O0): Strengthening the levee from
Brighton junction 10 Burns slough, 81 500 /;
strengthening the levee from railroad bridge
to Sixteenth street, $4,000; trengtheDiog
the front levee from to Y streets, $1,000.
Total, 1900.
Estimate No. s e: This estimate contains all
the items in Estimates Nos l and 2, and also
for protecting outer slope Of leyee from
Burns slough to railroad bridge, 81 500 !;
completing Y.street levee to plan, Sc, 600
which, added to $50, 600 included above,
makes a total Of $40, 800
Nothing, it will be noticed, is included in
the estimates for work on the river front, or
for raising the outer rim of the high grade on
which the railroad shops are located. After
a consideration of the possibility of greater
foods coming upon US than have occurred
since the American occupation of the country,
the address closed by few general remarks
to show that it is the part of wisdom and will
amply repay to make our levees doubly BE-
cure against even the most extraordinary
floods, whether danger is feared or not.