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Show PROTECTION FOR I IMPERIAL VALLEY I Congress Asked to Build Levee H to Hold Back Colorado H River Floods. Washington, Jan. 5. Construction H of a levee sixteen feet high and nine H miles long on tho present site of the H Volcano Lake level for the protection H of the Imperial Valley of California H against Colorado river floods, was rec- H ommended in a report sent today by H the war department to congress. An H extension six feet in height, which H would suffice for many years, also is M recommended, tho total cost not to IH exceed $1,250,000. H |