River Improvement Laws
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Excerpt from River Improvement Laws: In Other States and Countries Of all countries in the world none has had more experience than the Netherlands in the management and regulation of floods and the reclamation of lands subject to overflow. As is known to everybody, the greater part of that country has been so reclaimed, partly from the sea, partly from the great rivers in whose delta region it lies, and most of the land would disappear beneath the water, if the magnificent system of levees, canals and other protective works were suffered to decay. Under these circumstances it is evident that a study of the reclamation and protection laws of the Netherlands must be of great value to Californians who are interested in a similar undertaking, the reclamation of the delta lands of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and their permanent protection from floods. This study will be all the more fruitful because the Netherlands are like the Americans, jealous of their local self-government and little inclined to allow their rulers much power of interference with private rights and property. If their laws, no matter how beneficial and effective, had been imposed upon them by some despotic authority, their experience could be a guide to us in much less degree than is now possible. In analyzing the history of water laws in Holland, one is struck at once with the fact that their experience has been similar to that of California in two respects especially. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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