Word: sacramento
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Atop a bluff ten miles outside Sacramento sits California's opulent new Governor's mansion. When former Governor Ronald Reagan called for its construction a decade ago, he admonished his bureaucracy to design a home that symbolized the bustle and promise of America's fastest-growing state. Completed three years ago, the residence does indeed capture California's quicksilver suburbanty. It has expansive verandas, teakwood floors, eight bathrooms and a caretaker assigned to collect golf balls sliced off the fairway of a nearby country club...
...Sacramento, Calif...
...lowest ever recorded." Further, in the Great Plains area of eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska, the water supply is 40% to 60% below normal. Ski resort operators in nine Western states earlier reported losses totaling $50 million. Estimates of other financial casualties are growing. In Sacramento, officials predict that the drought will cause losses of $500 million in crops, $500 million in livestock and $1 billion in farm income-more than a fifth of California's 1976 $9 billion in agriculture earnings. In Oregon, where four coastal counties joined the list of nine eastern ones designated...
...Auburn-Folsom on his list, Brown came out in favor of the project, which is designed to irrigate 29,000 acres and provide supplemental water to 387,000 more. Brown's stand in favor of building the Auburn Dam was backed by Lyston Baldwin, past president of the Sacramento Area Water Works Association. Carter's action, he said, "left me shaking. If the dam is stopped, it will shatter the whole master plan for this section of California...
...site. The Association of Engineering Geologists warned last year that an earthquake could shatter the dam, releasing a reservoir 40 miles long containing 736 billion gallons of water. The terrifying result: a 100 ft. high wall of water that would rupture other dams downstream and all but drown the Sacramento area. At last week's federal hearing on the project, Civil Engineer Harry Cedergren said that the collapse of the Auburn could "kill up to 1 million people, flood 1,000 square miles of developed land, inundate five military installations and cause $40 or $50 billion in property damage...