33 U.S.C. § 665 — Survey for debris reservoirs; study of methods of mines and mining
submitted 133 years ago by ch. 183 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 206 words · no verdicts yet
The commission must study possible storage and settling sites near the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers for debris or water and flood relief. It must also investigate mining methods and research ways to continue hydraulic mining while controlling moved material.
The commission must examine, survey, and decide how useful and practical storage sites would be in the rivers’ tributaries and branches, or in nearby plains, basins, sloughs, tule lands, and swamps. The sites could store debris or water or serve as settling reservoirs. The goal is to improve and protect the navigable rivers by preventing mining, erosion, or other debris from entering them, relieving floods, and supplying enough water in summer to keep the rivers’ scouring force. The commission must also investigate hydraulic and other mines that use impounding dams, settling reservoirs, or other methods to restrain moved debris and material. More generally, it must study and research hydraulic mining, using science, experience, and engineering to find practical and useful methods allowing that mining while achieving the purposes described above.
It shall further examine, survey, and determine the utility and practicability, for the purposes hereinafter indicated, of storage sites in the tributaries of said rivers and in the respective branches of said tributaries, or in the plains, basins, sloughs, and tule and swamp lands adjacent to or along the course of said rivers, for the storage of debris or water or as settling reservoirs, with the object of using the same by either or all of these methods to aid in the improvement and protection of said navigable rivers by preventing deposits therein of debris resulting from mining operations, natural erosion, or other causes, or for affording relief thereto in flood time and providing sufficient water to maintain scouring force therein in the summer season; and in connection therewith to investigate such hydraulic and other mines as are or may have been worked by methods intended to restrain the debris and material moved in operating such mines by impounding dams, settling reservoirs, or otherwise, and in general to make such study of and researches in the hydraulic mining industry as science, experience, and engineering skill may suggest as practicable and useful in devising a method or methods whereby such mining may be carried on as aforesaid.
Source credit: (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 5, 27 Stat. 507.)
- 1893Enacted · Act of Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183 · 27 Stat. 507
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