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<br />Jacket Canal. The dam t%uld be 8 reic.ioTced concrete str,lGtur.e
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<br />including a canal he,adworku j Q 31uic:c;-';'!;-7, fir;h screens, n.r-::d :In UC~..
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<br />controlled overflow spillw~y.
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<br />Flows of the North Fork of th'~ ;,'ihite River nE:a;c the dLvc"-
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<br />sian si te average 288 second-feet annuully. Ext:reme floYF. l~<:lngc El~.-
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<br />88 second-feet in February 1969 to 1,950 Second-feet in Jl;:'iC 1.965.
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<br />Josephine Basin Canal" --Diverting from the YelJ.o\'l .JC.Ck2;:
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<br />Canal at the head of Little Beaver VaHey, the Josephine Ea8iltwl"1.
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<br />follO\~s the south side of the v:llley, sIphons the ,ihite Ri.-/Cl:, cucm_ '$
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<br />underneath the Grand Hogback, and distri'0ut(~S ~late;.- to Jo:;cphine 13a,";.01.,
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<br />Initial sections of the canal are covered '1ith onkbrush and sCi:itter';"d
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<br />serviceberry. After siphoning the Hhite River, Gagebrus:1 begins to
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<br />dominate the vegetative cover but SC'l tt~c""d oakbrush ace",,,,s are four".
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<br />as far as the Grand Hogback. Hest: of ::hc'llogback sagebrmoh and dry:. :;1'1
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<br />wheat fields predominate.
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<br />Laterals. --Practically gll l.aterals would be con''':ructcd
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<br />cover.. Small areas have scattered patcned of onkbrush or 0er.vi.ceb(~'::'/.:'Y<l
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<br />gation developments or have already been altered by existin.g devcI-
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<br />opments. Part of the drains will Dc buried pipe and farmind, ope~'2tic"'s
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