DT Data Page #:
444
Newspaper:
Humboldt Times
Newspaper Date:
11/1/1938
Page #:
1
Column:
6
Item Type:
Levee work
Place:
Fields Landing Buhne Ranch
TEXT:
1000 ' feet of the scheduled 3000' feet levee is completed. It is will 11' feet above mean low water. It will serve as a containment wall behind which the dredged mud from the Fields Landing turning basin will be dumped. The dumplings will be placed on the Buhne Ranch which suffered major erosion some time ago by the breakers that ran across the bay from the entrance to Humboldt Bay. Franks Contracting Company is doing the work.
Key Words:
Levee, Containment Wall, Major Erosion
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