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...workers raise extra barriers of sandbags just ahead of the rising river. Sand-boils, bubbles, slides and settles, one after another, threaten to wipe out all efforts in one great gush of doom. The glare of fusees mixes menacingly with the sweet smell of floating gasoline. Debris swims silently downstream to clog up on the bridges, finally carry them away. A privy goes by, "pivoting slowly like a model in a fashion parade." Fleming conveys the protracted melodrama of a bold, restless river in flood without once raising his voice adjectivally or using the verb "rampage...
...Tricks. The bureau's early projects were dams that watered lands downstream through canals flowing by gravity. Such "gravity sites" are almost gone, so the bureau has developed new tricks. Last week three of its greatest projects were close to completion. Each of them has a different trick for making rivers behave, and the three tricks combined form the engineering strategy that can give the U.S. new frontiers in the arid parts of the West...
From Tracy, the boosted Sacramento water will wind south 117 miles and spill into the San Joaquin at Mendota Pool. Then it will run down the San Joaquin, irrigating downstream lands. The payoff comes at the extreme southern end of the Central Valley. Friant Dam will divert San Joaquin water that would otherwise be needed downstream and send it through a 153-mile canal to drought-plagued Bakersfield. No Sacramento water will actually get to Bakersfield, but the effect will be just the same. As the bureaumen put it: "The rain will move 500 miles south...
...early time trails, the Yale heavies beat their junior varsity counterparts over the upper three miles of the downstream course by more than a length in 16 minutes and 30 seconds, rowing a steady 28 throughout...
Harvard later went the full four miles over the same downstream course in 22 minutes and five seconds, topping its jayvees by one and three-quarter lengths...