Excerpt from The Development of the Upper Sacramento River: An Appendix to the Summary Report to the Legislature of 1927 on the Water Resources of California and a Coordinated Plan for Their Development This bulletin is one of a series appended to the "Summary Report on the Water Resources of California and a Coordinated Plan for their Development" that was presented to the Legislature of 1927. It is part of the investigation of the water resources of the State commenced in 1921. This investigation comprised a survey of water supplies and flood flows throughout the State, a determination of their characteristics, an estimate of the present and future needs for water, and the formulation of a comprehensive and coordinated plan for future development in order to insure adequate water supplies for all purposes. The 1927 report concludes this investigation. The entire series of bulletins pertaining to the 1927 report are: Bul. 12- "Summary Report on the Water Resources of California and a Coordinated Plan for their Development." (A report to the Legislature of 1927.) Bul. 13- "The Development Of The Upper Sacra- Mento River." Bul. 14- "The Control of Floods by Reservoirs." Bul. 15- "The Coordinated Plan of Water Development in the Sacramento Valley." Bul. 16- "The Coordinated Plan of Water Development in the San Joaquin Valley." Bul. 17- "The Coordinated Plan of Water Development in Southern California." Other bulletins pertaining to these investigations published prior to the 1927 report are: Bul. 4- "Water Resources of California." (A report to the Legislature of 1923 on the first two years of investigation.) Bul. 5- "Flow in California Streams." Bul. 6- " Water Requirements of California Lands." Bul. 9- " A Supplemental Report on the Water Resources of California." (A report to the Legislature of 1925.) Bul. 11- "Ground Water Resources of the Southern San Joaquin Valley." The first appropriation for the investigation of the water resources of California was made by Chapter 889 of the 1921 Statutes, in the amount of $200,000. This resulted in the publication of Bulletins Nos. 4, 5 and 6.These contain a complete inventory of all the waters within the States boundaries, an estimate of the future needs of water for all purposes, and a preliminary comprehensive plan for ultimate development that will secure the greatest public service from the State's limited water supply. No provision was made for the continuance of the investigations by the 1923 Legislature, but at the urgent request of the farmers of the southern San Joaquin Valley the Chambers of Commerce of San Francisco and Los Angeles advanced $90,000 for the study of a first unit of the comprehensive plan that would relieve the stress in a section of the State most in need of an imported water supply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.