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Now, for instance, in your own State, in order to reduce floods and 

 erosion we are practically paving Los Angeles County and we are 

 automaltically, by so doing, stopping sand from reaching the beaches 

 in that vicinity, and so we are building for ourselves a problem right 

 there in the Los Angeles area. 



We do not know enough now and did not have enough data to 

 solve some of these things. 



Mr. Miller. I only wish to say, coming from another area of the 

 State, that after we get east of the Rocky Mountains we are always 

 very careful in discussing what takes place in California. We become 

 superzealous of one another's position, you see. 



General Wilsox. Well, sir, you have some problems up in your area, 

 too. 



Mr. Miller. I was going to say that if you could find some way of 

 taking some of the silt that is clogging up part of San Francisco Bay 

 and giving it to them in southern California, we would be very happy 

 to make the transfer. 



General Wilson. I might tell you that I got caught in studying that 

 problem when I was a student at the University of California by Dean 

 Emeritus O'Brien, who is now on our Board, and I remind him of how 

 he got me into that thesis. 



Mr. Miller. I want to thank you for coming, General. 



I want you to know that we on this committee realize that yours is 

 the area in which the ocean and the land join physically and biologi- 

 cally and everything else this is a very important study. 



General Wilson. Thank you, sir. 



Mr. Miller. I want to thank you for being here. 



It is just about 12. We will be having a quorum call in a very few 

 minutes so that, without objection, we will adjourn until 10 o'clock 

 Thursday morning. 



(Whereupon, at 12 noon, the committee adjourned, to reconvene at 

 10 a.m., Thursday, May 19, 1960.) 



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