Condition at end of fiscal year.-No construction has been done. Plans have been initiated. Proposed operations.-The balance unexpended June 30, 1945, together with accounts receivable, amounting in all to $21,316.55, will be applied to new work, preparation of project plans and plans and specifications for the construction of the project. The additional sum of $486,200 can be profitably expended during the fiscal year 1947 for new work, construction of the entire project by contract. Cost and financial summary Cost of new work to June 30, 1945 Total cost of permanent work to June 30, 1945 Plus accounts receivable June 30, 1945 $3, 683. 45 3, 683. 45 316.55 4,000.00 4,000.00 21,000.00 25,000.00 Accounts receivable June 30, 1945 Amount allotted from War Department Civil Appropriation Act approved Apr. 25, 1945 Gross amount expended Balance unexpended June 30, 1945 $25,000.00 4,000.00 21, 000.00 316.55 Unobligated balance available June 30, 1945 21, 316. 55 Amount (estimated) required to be appropriated for completion of existing project1 486, 200.00 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending 486, 200.00 1 Exclusive of available funds. 17. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS, SURVEYS, AND The cost of work during the year amounted to $47,390.24; the expenditures were $46,090.21. The balance unexpended June 30, 1945, amounting to $80,166.44, will be applied as needed during the fiscal year 1946 to payment of expenses incurred under this heading. The additional sum of $70,000 can be profitably expended during the fiscal year 1947. Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending 126, 256. 65 46, 090. 21 80, 166. 44 2, 322. 76 77, 843.68 70, 000. 00 18. OTHER FLOOD-CONTROL PROJECTS FOR WHICH NO ESTIMATES ARE SUBMITTED 1 Awaiting local cooperation. 2 Authorized by Flood Control Act approved Dec. 22, 1944. See H. Doc. No. 626. 78th Cong., 2d sess. Status of all investigations for flood control called for by flood control acts and committee resolutions Alhambra Creek and tributaries, California... Flood Control Act, Big Sur River and tributaries, Monterey Carmel River and tributaries, Monterey Corte Madera Creek, Marin County, Calif.. Coyote River and tributaries, California. Eel River, Calif., flood control in Mendocino Eel River, Humboldt County, Calif...... Napa River and tributaries, below Suscol, Novato Creek and tributaries, Marin County, Pajaro River Watershed, Calif., for flood con- Petaluma Creek and tributaries, Sonoma Salinas River, Calif. Salinas River, Monterey County, Calif.. Salinas River, Calif. (interim report). San Francisquito Creek, San Mateo and San Lorenzo River, Santa Cruz County, Calif San Rafael Creek and its tributaries, California. Aug. 18, 1941. do. do. Flood Control Act, June 22, 1936. Flood Control Act, IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND HARBORS IN THE SACRAMENTO, CALIF., DISTRICT This district comprises southern central Oregon, northwestern Nevada, and northwestern and central California embraced in the northern half of the great basin draining toward central Nevada, and the drainage basins of Suisun Bay, the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and their tributaries, and since September 30, 1943, has included also the area of the former Salt Lake City, Utah, district, namely, a portion of northeastern and central Nevada, all of Utah except the northwestern tip and the southern portion, part of southeastern Idaho, southwestern Wyoming, and the major portion of western Colorado, embraced in the northern portion of the great basin including the Great Salt Lake Basin, and the minor basin between that basin and the Humboldt River Basin. District engineers: Col. R. C. Hunter, Corps of Engineers, to December 26, 1944; Head Engineer Henry M. Rich, acting district engineer, December 27, 1944, to February 28, 1945; Col. Lester F. Rhodes, Corps of Engineers, since that date. Division engineer: Col. Edwin C. Kelton, Corps of Engineers, to April 15, 1945; Brig. Gen. Philip G. Bruton, United States Army, since that date. 1. SAN JOAQUIN RIVER, CALIF. Location.-San Joaquin River rises in the Sierra Nevada and flows 317 miles westerly and northerly to Suisun Bay. Existing project. This provides for a channel 30 feet deep at mean lower low water and for channel-bottom widths of 400 feet below Criminal Point and 225 feet above that point, from the mouth of New York Slough to Mormon Channel at Stockton, a distance of 41 miles (suitably widened at bends and at the entrances to New York Slough and to channels through shoals, with levees set back 230 feet from the center of the channel); for a channel 26 feet deep and 100 feet wide, thence to Edison Street three-fourths miles; for a 9-foot depth, thence to the head of navigation at El Dorado Street, one-half mile; for a 9-foot depth in Fremont Channel and McLeod Lake, arms of Stockton Channel; and for a channel 9 feet deep and 100 feet wide in Mormon Channel from its mouth to Center Street, head of navigation, 1.7 miles. It also provides for suitable passing basins and a turning basin at Stockton; for a triangular-shaped settling basin 30 feet deep and average side length of about 1,000 feet in the San Joaquin River just above its junction with the Stockton deep-water channel and a second settling basin 30 feet deep, 1,200 feet long, and 100 feet wide, adjoining the deep-water channel at the mouth of Calaveras River; for the reconstruction to grade and section of approximately 4,000 feet of levee along the north side of Venice Island Cut, and the setting back of levees where required for the channel improvements; for cutting off sharp bends and making cut-offs in the river; for partial closing of side channels at Laird Slough and Paradise Cut by weirs to confine the low-water flow to one main channel; and for snagging, removing overhanging trees, and constructing brush wing dams from the mouth of Stockton Channel to Hills Ferry, 86 miles, to facilitate light-draft navigation on this part of the river during higher stages of water. The following table shows the tide and flood conditions prevailing: 1 Mean lower low water to mean higher high water. The estimate of cost for new work, revised in 1945, is $4,011,000. This amount does not include $1,307,500 contributed by local interests toward the cost of dredging. The latest (1937) approved estimate of annual cost of maintenance is $181,000 during the first year and $111,000 annually thereafter. The existing project was authorized by the following river and harbor acts: |