Estimate by State engineer of amount of damage in Sonoma County due to flood of December 1937-Continued Summer camps, homes, and resort equipment: Cottages and tent platforms. Cottages and grounds_. Dance halls.... Boats Boathouses Landing stages, platforms, and rafts. Farm buildings, fences, and equipment: Livestock: $57,000 68,000 14,000 48, 400 23,400 21, 200 12,000 24,000 $268,000 120, 000 61, 200 7,000 159,000 347, 200 Estimate by State engineer of amount of damage in Mendocino County due to Estimate by State engineer of amount of damage in Mendocino County due to flood of December 1937—Continued 750 300 300 Gas and electric systems: Pacific Gas & Electric Co., reservoirs_-_- Urban improvements, homes and businesses: City of Ukiah, parks. National-forest campgrounds. 65 cabins, 16 small houses_ Cold Creek fish hatchery Snow Mountain egg-collecting station_. State parks, unsegregated__ Flood-protection works: River-bank repairs_ Increased operating expenses and interruption of business: Pacific Gas & Electric Co---. Northwestern Pacific Ry $400 100, 000 30,000 500 9,000 1,500 141, 400 20,000 50, 000 70, 000 2,000 750 750 500 4,000 5,000 10,000 10, 000 25, 000 60,000 25,000 85,000 50,000 $100 10, 000 10, 100 1, 001, 596 Total damage in Mendocino County--. Expenditures on Russian River for flood-control works, levees, channel-clearing, etc., from July 1, 1938, to May 1945, inclusive Expenditures on Russian River for flood-control works, levees, channel-clearing, etc., from July 1, 1938, to May 1945, inclusive-Continued Expenditures on Dry Creek for flood-control work, levees, channel clearing, etc., from July 1, 1938, to July 1, 1943, and supplementary to July 1, 1945 WAR DEPARTMENT, MARCH 20, 1946. United States Engineer Office, San Francisco, Calif. (Attention Mr. Otto Von Saggern.) GENTLEMEN: Reference is made to your request that your record of expenditures for flood control on the Russian River be brought up to date. A record of these expenditures to May 1945 was sent you in my letter dated June 26, 1945. From May 1945 to February 13, 1946, the following additional expenditures were made: From county funds for levees and channel adjacent to Cloverdale By Cloverdale flood-control district with private funds donated for Total $4,093. 35 150. 12 4, 243. 47 Additional damages to levees in the vicinity of the Vadon ranch estimated at $5,000 occurred during the winter of 1945-46. At the present time the Cloverdale flood-control district is negotiating with the State department of water resources for $2,500 of State funds on a matching basis for the repair of these damages. Very truly yours, MARSHALL WALLACE, County Surveyor and Road Commissioner. Mr. WALLACE. This refers to a photograph which I have here. I would like to submit that for the record. Senator MCCLELLAN. The photograph may be filed. It will not be printed, but it may be filed for the information of the committee. (The map referred to is on file with the committee.) Senator MCCLELLAN. Do you have anything else? Mr. WALLACE. Senator, this photograph is submitted merely for the information of the committee and is submitted as a typical example of the conditions which exist along the river; many points urgently need correction. In conclusion, I would urge favorable consideration of our project, due to these particular reasons. The river must be corrected through flood-control plans, and the plan of protection is naturally largely contingent upon approval of this project, so that we may make the proper protection of the stream. Senator MCCLELLAN. This may have been testified to already; I do not recall. Have the bonds already been issued, or will that be done after the project is authorized? Mr. WALLACE. That will be done after the project is authorized. That is possibly one reason for our urging. Senator MCCLELLAN. So, you are ready to proceed once you know the project is authorized? Mr. WALLACE. That is right. Senator MCCLELLAN. You are ready, then, to proceed to meet the requirements of local interests? Mr. WALLACE. That is correct, Mr. Chairman. Senator MCCLELLAN. Do you have anything else? Mr. WALLACE. That is all. Senator MCCLELLAN. Do you have any questions? Senator DowNEY. Mr. Wallace, am I correct in believing this will develop about 24,000 acre-feet of water that can be used for domestic and industrial irrigation purposes? 94522-49-pt. 2-16 Mr. WALLACE. That is my understanding of the project, that the amount of water remaining, that is, after taking care of flood control. filtration, and the recreational benefits, which proposes to guarantee a sustained flow during the vacation months-that the balance remaining is 24,000 acre-feet. Senator DOWNEY. Am I right in assuming that you and your associates believe that the approximate amount of 21,000 acre-feet will probably be ultimately required for domestic and industrial purposes? Mr. WALLACE. That is my understanding, and I believe that testimony will show that, those witnesses who will follow me, as far as this presentation is concerned. Senator DOWNEY. Therefore, there is a likelihood or a possibility that the irrigation benefits will be nonexistent or at least not very large? Mr. WALLACE. Well, let us say that the irrigation, as now carried on from the wells and river, will not be materially increased under the initial stage of the project. Senator DOWNEY. You people will merely continue to pump out of the river, and maybe they may have a somewhat firmer supply. Mr. WALLACE. That, I think, is true. Senator DOWNEY. And there is no way of defining what the benefits will be, is there? Mr. WALLACE. It is too complicated for me. Senator DOWNEY. It would probably take 30 years of adjudication, in my opinion, if they attempted to show what the benefit was. Now, Mr. Wallace, let me ask you this question. Under your plan, assuming the authorization went through the way it was here contemplated and that the Bureau of Reclamation did not enter into it, did I understand your district, your organization, is going to buy that 24,000 acre-feet of water from the Government and then distribute it for municipal or industrial or irrigation purposes? Mr. WALLACE. Well, Senator, I am not prepared to answer that question. Senator DOWNEY. That is all, then. Senator MCCLELLAN. Are there any other questions? (No response.) Senator MCCLELLAN. Do you have any other witnesses? Mr. SCUDDER. Our next witness is Supervisor James Lyttle of Sonoma County. STATEMENT OF JAMES LYTTLE, SUPERVISOR, SONOMA COUNTY, CALIF. Senator MCCLELLAN. Will you state your name and position for the record? First, you have a prepared statement, Mr. Lyttle? Mr. LYTTLE. Yes, I have, a short statement, Honorable Chairman. Senator MCCLELLAN. All right, you may proceed. I thought if you had a long statement, it could just be placed in the record. Mr. LYTTLE. My name is James F. Lyttle, and I am a member of the Board of Supervisors of Sonoma County, which is also the governing body of the Sonoma County Flood and Conservation District. I would like to leave with you a statement of the potential need for water in the area lying between the city of Santa Rosa and San Francisco Bay. This comprises the southern half of Sonoma County |