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California Geological Survey

Two men riding a giant hydraulic water jet (monitor) at La Grange hydraulic mine near Weaverville, California. Until their eventual banning in 1884, flooding, mud and landslides, and severe erosion damage had devastated the Sacramento Valley.



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