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<br />, <br />I't' <br />:;; '.: <br />"," <br /> <br />along the R;..1driquez Levee, as othervlise it is very c.:');~11~~- <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />ful if that levee could have been held against the <br /> <br />. -'l <br />rap}.,. <br /> <br />increase in the height of water each year as the Pescadero <br /> <br />cone built up. <br /> <br />Subsequent to 19:~9, and prior to the control of the <br />River in 1935 by Boulder Dam, there were no floods of <br /> <br />serious magnitude, and little 'additional levee work was <br /> <br />required because of the low flow. However, in this period <br />conditions developed to the point where, had it not been <br />for Boulder Dam, it would have been but a short time <br />before another diversion of the River would have been <br /> <br />'.' <br /> <br />necessary, as well as a raising and strengthening of the <br />entire levee system. <br />To those familiar with the work, it was apparent <br /> <br />that the fight to control the River in the delta by levees <br />was a losing game. Not only did it mean an increasing <br />cost but the security of the lands to the west decreased <br /> <br />year by year. <br />The Colorado's process of silt deposition in the <br />del ta was a perpetual process. of nature. Against such a <br />process man can struggle for only a limited time. It was <br />only a question of time when the increasing heights of <br /> <br />the levees, forced by the silting of the delta, would <br />have reached the point beyond which they could not prac~ <br />ticably be raised. The inevitable result would have been <br /> <br />10 - <br />