Comprehensive Flood-control Plans on H.R. 9640: Hearings... on H.R. 9640...1940 - 1024 pages |
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... indicating for the record the project at this time ? Mr. CROWE . For the record , one is the Orleans , Ind . , flood control , which you reported last year and I believe the year before . Another is the reservoirs at Brookville and ...
... indicating for the record the project at this time ? Mr. CROWE . For the record , one is the Orleans , Ind . , flood control , which you reported last year and I believe the year before . Another is the reservoirs at Brookville and ...
Page 191
... [ indicating ] of Chattanooga and its vicinity . Here [ indicating ] I think you can see a nearly horizontal line , which is the State line between Chattanooga , Tenn . , and Rossville , Ga . Down here [ indicating ] is historic Lookout ...
... [ indicating ] of Chattanooga and its vicinity . Here [ indicating ] I think you can see a nearly horizontal line , which is the State line between Chattanooga , Tenn . , and Rossville , Ga . Down here [ indicating ] is historic Lookout ...
Page 192
... [ indicating ] as now developed becomes flooded . An area of 8,000 acres , half the total acreage of the city , will be under water . I diverge for a moment and call attention to the fact that down in this section there is an absence of ...
... [ indicating ] as now developed becomes flooded . An area of 8,000 acres , half the total acreage of the city , will be under water . I diverge for a moment and call attention to the fact that down in this section there is an absence of ...
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... [ indicating ] . The CHAIRMAN . Is that highland or lowland ? Mr. CHANDLER . That would be subject to flood . The CHAIRMAN . Where is your Volunteer State Life Insurance Building ? Mr. CHANDLER . I think I know the building you ...
... [ indicating ] . The CHAIRMAN . Is that highland or lowland ? Mr. CHANDLER . That would be subject to flood . The CHAIRMAN . Where is your Volunteer State Life Insurance Building ? Mr. CHANDLER . I think I know the building you ...
Page 196
... [ indicating ] . The CHAIRMAN . Right in there [ indicating ] , is that all subject to floods where you had the pencil ? Mr. CHANDLER . None of this white area , Judge Whittington . The CHAIRMAN . That is what I am trying to find out ...
... [ indicating ] . The CHAIRMAN . Right in there [ indicating ] , is that all subject to floods where you had the pencil ? Mr. CHANDLER . None of this white area , Judge Whittington . The CHAIRMAN . That is what I am trying to find out ...
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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...