Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley.(Review)

Environment | January 1, 1999| | Copyright

By Robert Kelly; University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1998; xxvii + 395 pp., $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-520-21428-5)

Under natural conditions, the Sacramento River and its tributaries would annually create a huge "inland sea" covering hundreds of square miles of some of the best farmland in the United States. Ever since the mid-19th century, there has been a constant struggle to prevent, or at least to contain, this epic flooding. And as the devastating floods of 1997 showed, a good solution has yet to be found. In this book, Robert Kelly traces the history of ...

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