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174 THE TEXAS ALMANAC,
area protected, 2,113 acres; length of
levees, 105,858 feet (20.05 miles); esti-
mated cost, $188,207.74.
Totals on New Levee Work,
Grand totals of all levee plans approved
in this two-year period (levee district and
private): Number of projects, 40; area af-
fected, 184,523.34 acres; length of levees,
82.42 miles, plus 26.02 miles of district
levees practically rebuilt; bonds and esti-
mates, $1,971,702.24, to which may be add-
ed the 152.98 miles of levees approved for
the Cameron-Hidalgo County and the
-Matagorda County reclamation projects
not under the levee laws.
RIO GRANDE VALLEY RECLA NATION
PROJECT,
One of the big reclamation projects of
Texas lies in the Lower Rio Grande Val-
ley. The Cameron-Hidalgo-Willacy Coun-
ty problem is to prevent floods from the
Rio Grande, originating above Mission.
Just abo Te Mission rises the Arroyo Colo-
rado, with a more or less well defined
channel, which at a distance of about two
to six or seven miles parellels the Rio
Grande through Hidalgo County. Above
Miercedes, in the southeast corner of Hi-dalgo County, it splits into two channels,
one going eastward and northeastward
through Cameron County toward Willacy
County, forming the boundary between
the two for some miles, and emptying
into Laguna Madre; the other going north
toward Willacy County. At flood stage
the Rio Grande leaves its banks near
Mission and sends great volumes of water,
sometimes 120,000 second-feet, down the
Arroyo Colorado, inundating thousands of
acres of improved land. Plans have been
devised by which floods of 120,000 second-
feet shall be received between parallel
levees twelve to fourteen feet high along
the Arroyo Colorado, at Mission flumes
and Hackney Lake, and carried to the
separation of the arroyo into two chan-
nels west of Miercedes, there to be di-
vided between the northern and southern
channels. Plans call also for 32.46 miles
of levee on the Rio Grande upstream
from Brownsville to the Cameron-Hidalgo
County line, and 12.80 miles downstream
from Brownsville, one to nine feet high,
and for other work. The complete plans
call for about 150 miles of levee.
Tax Remission in Lower Valley.
For the purpose of assisting in' this
project, the Thirty-Eighth Legislature
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1927 The Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide, book, 1927~; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123785/m1/178/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.