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Living on the Niles Cone - droughts and floods

Was the 1955 Fremont Flood a reason for moving the Shinn Buildings up to Peralta Blvd? USGS Map Alameda County Water District (ACWD) when did the Shinn house get hooked up. Fremont Flood of 1955 1913 article on wells   J.C. Shinn's water journal

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