Water Storage, Cache Creek, California (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Water Storage, Cache Creek, California (Classic Reprint) written by Albert E. Chandler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Water Storage, Cache Creek, California After leaving the canyon the creek enters Capay Valley, in Yolo County, through which it winds for a distance of 28 miles, with a grade of feet to the mile. Capay Valley is 20 miles long and from 1 mile to 3 miles wide. It is hemmed in on all sides by hills, to the shelter of which is due its remarkable productiveness. Once known merely as a rich wheat-raising district, it is fast becoming famous for its early fruit-s. All stone fruits seem to thrive there, and in the upper end of the valley even oranges are profitably cultivated on a small scale. From Capay Valley the creek enters the greater Sacramento Valley and ows, with a slope of 4 to 6 feet to the mile, to Tule Basin, bordering Sacramento River. There its natural channel ceases, and its waters enter a canal which connects the sink with the Tule canal. The latter was built by the State of California in 1864 to drain Tule Basin. It empties into Big Lake in the extreme southeast corner of Yolo County, and from the lake its waters reach the Sacramento through a slough. 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."