Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The California Debris Commission was a federal commission created in 1893 by an act of Congress (27 Stat. 507) to regulate California streams that had been devastated by the sediment washed into them from gold mining operations upstream in the Sierra Nevada. It was created to mitigate the damage to natural seasonal river flow and navigation, which had been caused by the extensive use of hydraulic mining. The act was codified under Navigation in 33 U.S.C. Chapter 14 (§§ 661-683)."@en }
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- California_Debris_Commission comment "The California Debris Commission was a federal commission created in 1893 by an act of Congress (27 Stat. 507) to regulate California streams that had been devastated by the sediment washed into them from gold mining operations upstream in the Sierra Nevada. It was created to mitigate the damage to natural seasonal river flow and navigation, which had been caused by the extensive use of hydraulic mining. The act was codified under Navigation in 33 U.S.C. Chapter 14 (§§ 661-683).".