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A work crew toils away at constructing a portion of the revetment along the Sacramento River in this July 1940 photograph. Just days prior to this, Colonel Warren T. Hannum of the Army Corps of Engineers declared that the Sacramento Valley's levee system had faced the ""supreme test"" of a very rainy winter of 1939/40 and was a ""standing monument"" to the efficiency of the engineering in the region. He also lauded the maintenance work on the levees which was the sole responsibility of the State Government.
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