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12650
. The plan of improvement for flood protection on various
streams in the Merced County Stream Group in the San Joaquin Valley
is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered
473, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, at an estimated cost to
the State of sixty-one thousand three hundred dollars ($61,300).
Notwithstanding any estimated cost to the State contained in this
section, local cooperation which shall be furnished by the State in
connection with the plan of improvement for flood protection on
various streams in the Merced County Stream Group in the San Joaquin
Valley, adopted and authorized under this section shall include,
without limitation as to the generality thereof:
(a) Enlargement of the channel of Miles Creek to the extent
indicated on Inclosure 3 of House Document Numbered 473,
Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session.
(b) Acquisition of lands, easements and rights of way necessary
for construction of the following diversions to the capacities
indicated:
(1) Owens Creek Diversion, 400 cubic feet per second.
(2) Black Rascal Diversion, 3,000 cubic feet per second.
(c) Providing the following channel capacities of the various
creeks:
(1) Burns Creek: 2,000 cubic feet per second on Burns Creek from
its confluence with Bear Creek upstream to the section line common to
Sections 3 and 10, T. 7 S., R. 15 E., M. D. B. & M.
(2) Bear Creek: 2,000 cubic feet per second from its confluence
with Burns Creek upstream to the section line common to Sections 11
and 12, T. 7 S., R. 15 E., M. D. B. & M.; 4,000 cubic feet per second
from its confluence with Black Rascal Creek Diversion upstream to
its confluence with Burns Creek; 7,000 cubic feet per second from its
confluence with the head of Black Rascal Slough to the Black Rascal
Creek Diversion; not less than 3,100 cubic feet per second from its
confluence with the lower end of Black Rascal Slough to the
confluence with the head of Black Rascal Slough, so that the combined
capacity of Bear Creek and Black Rascal Slough is not less than
7,000 cubic feet per second; 7,000 cubic feet per second from the
section line common to Sections 2 and 3, T. 8 S., R. 12 E., M. D. B.
& M., upstream to the confluence of Bear Creek with the lower end of
Black Rascal Slough.
(3) Black Rascal Slough: Not less than 3,900 cubic feet per second
and so that the combined capacity of Black Rascal Slough and Bear
Creek is not less than 7,000 cubic feet per second.
(4) Miles Creek: 1,000 cubic feet per second from the Merced-El
Nido Highway upstream to the section line common to Sections 25 and
26, T. 7 S., R. 15 E., M. D. B. & M.
(5) Owens Creek: 400 cubic feet per second from Owens Creek
Diversion to the bridge crossing at the section line common to
Sections 29 and 30, T. 7 S., R. 16 E., M. D. B. & M.
(6) Mariposa Creek: 1,000 cubic feet per second from Owens Creek
Diversion upstream to the bridge located in SW. 1/4 of Section 10, T.
8 S., R. 16 E., M. D. B. & M.; 1,250 cubic feet per second from El
Nido Highway upstream to Owens Creek Diversion.