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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of a Request
to the Corps of Engineers 275
for a Survey of San Pablo RESOLUTION NO,
and Wildcat Creeps .
WHEREAS, it appears to the Board of Supervisors that the Pub-
lic Works Committee of the House of Representatives has authorized the
Corps. of Engineers to conduct a survey of San Pablo and Wildcat Creeks
in Contra Costa County to determine the feasibility of Federal assis-
tance in flood control work on San Pablo and Wildcat Creeks; and
WHEREAS, it further appears that due to excessive flood dam-
ages caused. by the overflow of these two creeks in 1955 and 1958 the
need for such a'survey is urgent; and
WHEREAS, it further appears that additional development in
the watershed areas where waters enter San Pablo and Wildcat Creeks
will further worsen the present critical flood problem along; the lower
reaches of these two creeks;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Contra . Costa, Stats of California, that this Board re-
quests the Chief of En ineers to allocate funds in the amount of $65,000
for the fiscal year 1962- -58 for the conduct and completion of such sur-
veys on Wildcat and San Pablo Creeks .
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Contra Costa County Flood Con-
trol and Water Conservation District, State of California, is prepared
to turn over to the Corps of .Engineers _current field survey data and to
assist in all ways in the conduct of any Corps survey.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this resolu-
tion be forwarded to. The Honorable Clair Engle and The Honorable Thomas
H. Kuchel, United States Senators, to The Honorable John F. Baldwin,
Representative in Congress, Sixth District- of California, _.to. Lieutenant
General W. K. Wilson, Jr., Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army,
Building. T-7, Washington 25, D.C., and to Colonel John Morrison, Dis-
trict Engineer,,, San Francisco -District, Department .of the Army, 170 New
Montgomery Street, San Francisco.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 29th day of August, 1961, by the fol-
lowing vote of the Board. .
AYES: Supervisors James P. Kenny, Mel. F. Nielsen, Thomas
John Coll, Edmund A. Linscheid, Joseph S. Silva.
NOES: Mone . f
ABSENT: None .
RESOLUTION No. 275