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Title: Keeping Flood Waters Out
Creator: AP Wirephoto
Date Created and/or Issued: 1972/06/22
Contributing Institution: Center for Sacramento History
Collection: Center for Sacramento History Photo Collection
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Description: Description provided by AP with photo states: "Workmen spread plastic over the top of a newly constructed protective levee as they fight to keep flood waters flowing from a break in the levee between the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers out of Isleton, a Central California community Wednesday. The levee break sent hundreds fleeing from their homes and has caused an estimated millions in damages."
Type: image
Identifier: 592A62F8-5902-4FCC-BA94-583024591741
1983/001/SBPM06121
Subject: Isleton, Ca
Sacramento County

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