12:07 pm EST, November 07, 2009

Title: Battling the Inland Sea : Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley Author(s): By Robert Lloyd Kelley, David S. Kennedy Price: $16.95 (Paperback) Buy it!

In its natural condition, the Sacramento Valley flooded annually and an inland sea formed during the rainy season, draining slowly away by the summer months. The effort to control the flooding and exploit the rich valley for agriculture has resulted in a 1,000-mile system of levees and drains. Robert Kelley documents and analyzes the process and the widely-diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the valley from floods.

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