Comprehensive Flood-control Plans on H.R. 9640: Hearings... on H.R. 9640...1940 - 1024 pages |
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... River and its tribu- taries . For this basin , Congress has likewise approved a comprehen- sive plan for flood ... White River Basin , Ark . and Mo. , Congress has approved a comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes at a ...
... River and its tribu- taries . For this basin , Congress has likewise approved a comprehen- sive plan for flood ... White River Basin , Ark . and Mo. , Congress has approved a comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes at a ...
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... River in Texas , the North Concho River in Texas , Brady Creek , and other enlargements of the existing Lake ... White River , Ark . and Mo. , and on the Arkansas River Basin , and in the Missouri River Basin , and the Ohio River Basin ...
... River in Texas , the North Concho River in Texas , Brady Creek , and other enlargements of the existing Lake ... White River , Ark . and Mo. , and on the Arkansas River Basin , and in the Missouri River Basin , and the Ohio River Basin ...
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... White River . Will you state for the record at this time the reservoirs on the White River that have been authorized ? Colonel Scort . The following reservoirs were authorized in 1938 for flood control on the White River basin ...
... White River . Will you state for the record at this time the reservoirs on the White River that have been authorized ? Colonel Scort . The following reservoirs were authorized in 1938 for flood control on the White River basin ...
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... White River then is additional authorization if you are to construct the Norfolk and the other reservoirs on which you have made reports ? Colonel SCOTT . That is correct . If any additional reservoirs are to get under way in the White ...
... White River then is additional authorization if you are to construct the Norfolk and the other reservoirs on which you have made reports ? Colonel SCOTT . That is correct . If any additional reservoirs are to get under way in the White ...
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... White River . The CHAIRMAN . All right . Colonel SCOTT . That is a very comprehensive report , a review of the entire White River Basin , and it will take some time to prepare it . We have to have money to do it , and the inclusion of ...
... White River . The CHAIRMAN . All right . Colonel SCOTT . That is a very comprehensive report , a review of the entire White River Basin , and it will take some time to prepare it . We have to have money to do it , and the inclusion of ...
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acre-feet acres amount approximately Arkansas River Army engineers backwater area Board Brazos River Bull Shoals Captain HARDIN Captain MONTGOMERY Captain REBER CHAIRMAN CHANDLER channel Chattanooga Chief of Engineers CLASON Colonel BESSON Colonel COVELL Colonel HALL Colonel MARKS Colonel SCOTT Colonel STURDEVANT Colorado committee Congress construction Corps of Engineers County CURTIS damage district engineer estimated cost Federal Government feet Flood Protection District flow FULLER glad going HEDGER interested irrigation Judge WOOD Kansas KAUPKE KELLER Kings River KNAPP land levee LEWIS located LOGSDON lower Ohio Major SMITH MCCLURE miles Mississippi River Missouri River Norris Dam North Pensacola Pensacola Dam percent POAGE present question RABB railroad recommended record Republican River reservoirs rights-of-way River Basin ROBINS SCHLEY statement storage stream Table Rock Tennessee Valley Authority tion town tributaries TYLER understand Verdigris River VOORHIS Waco White River Yazoo
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Page 554 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following work of improvement is hereby adopted and authorized, to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 253 - George S. Knapp, chief engineer of the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture; and Earnest Boyce, director of the Division of Sanitation of the Kansas State Board of Health.
Page 900 - That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, created under Section 3 of the River and Harbor Act approved June 13, 1902, be, and is hereby requested to review the...
Page 842 - California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered 630, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 894 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 43 - The CHAIRMAN.. Are there any questions by any members of the committee ? Mr.
Page 330 - June 28, 1938, approved the general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the upper Mississippi River Basin described in the Flood Control Committee Document No. 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 760 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 794 - June 22, 1936, shall be construed to include channel and major drainage improvements, and that hereafter Federal investigations and improvements of rivers and other waterways for flood control and allied purposes shall be under the jurisdiction of and shall be prosecuted by the War Department under the direction of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 514 - Chairman and gentlemen, the Board of Supervisors of the Los Angeles County Flood Control District has directed me to appear before this committee to report the flood control needs of our area for fiscal year 1967. At the outset of this statement, I should like to emphasize that we are...