Rivers and Harbors Bill: Hearings, Seventy-ninth Congress |
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... inch pipe line to the storage facilities to be constructed at Eagles Nest and deepening of Johnsons River channel to 15 feet for use in the receipt and shipment locally of petroleum products by motor vessels and barges with drafts of 12 ...
... inch pipe line to the storage facilities to be constructed at Eagles Nest and deepening of Johnsons River channel to 15 feet for use in the receipt and shipment locally of petroleum products by motor vessels and barges with drafts of 12 ...
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... inches . Is that right , Judge ? Mr. RANKIN . You will not have any trouble with salinity where you have a 50 - inch rainfall . Colonel FERINGA . Is that too high ? The CHAIRMAN . I do not know . It rains 365 days a year , I be- lieve ...
... inches . Is that right , Judge ? Mr. RANKIN . You will not have any trouble with salinity where you have a 50 - inch rainfall . Colonel FERINGA . Is that too high ? The CHAIRMAN . I do not know . It rains 365 days a year , I be- lieve ...
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... inches . The rainfall here in Wash- ington is 43 inches . You go along the coast here and you will see that vegetation grows right down to the water's edge , because there is a rainfall of 43 inches , which continues to wash the salt ...
... inches . The rainfall here in Wash- ington is 43 inches . You go along the coast here and you will see that vegetation grows right down to the water's edge , because there is a rainfall of 43 inches , which continues to wash the salt ...
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... inches and covered lawns and streets and everything . Those condi- tions will be prevented by this project ; and of course , as to the drink- ing water , there will be normal pollution abatement . The CHAIRMAN . What method would be ...
... inches and covered lawns and streets and everything . Those condi- tions will be prevented by this project ; and of course , as to the drink- ing water , there will be normal pollution abatement . The CHAIRMAN . What method would be ...
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... inches , and the controlling depth in the up - bound channels is 21 feet . However , lakes stages are often above the datum plane elevations for these depths . Descriptions of the many reaches of improved channels with their project ...
... inches , and the controlling depth in the up - bound channels is 21 feet . However , lakes stages are often above the datum plane elevations for these depths . Descriptions of the many reaches of improved channels with their project ...
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12 feet 28 feet 30 feet additional amount ANGELL annual carrying charges Army engineers authorized barge Baton Rouge Board of Engineers Calcasieu River canal cargo CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers Colonel FERINGA Columbia River commerce Congress construction Coos Bay craft Creek damages deepening depth district engineer DONDERO dredging Engineers for Rivers estimated existing project facilities favor Federal feet 6 inches feet deep feet wide fishing flood control Gulf Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Harbor Act Harbors Committee industrial interests Intracoastal Waterway Johns River Lake Charles land LARCADE load located lock Louisiana lumber maintenance Mattaponi River Mermentau River miles Mississippi River Missouri River navigation operation Oreg PETERSON of Georgia petroleum products PITTENGER port of Coos present proposed PYBURN railroads RANKIN Rivers and Harbors savings Schuylkill River Sioux City South statement tankers terminal tion tonnage tons traffic transportation tributary turning basin vessels WHEELER width
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Page 79 - Act shall be expended on the construction of any project until States, political subdivisions thereof, or other responsible local agencies have given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the project...
Page 297 - Investigations which form the basis of any such plans, proposals, or reports shall be conducted in such a manner as to give to the affected State or States, during the course of investigations, information developed by the investigations and also opportunity for consultation regarding plans and proposals, and, to the extent deemed practicable by the Chief of Engineers, opportunity to cooperate in the investigations.
Page 298 - ... arising in States lying wholly or partly west of the 98th meridian shall be only such use as does not conflict with any beneficial consumptive use, present or future, in States lying wholly or partly west of the 98th meridian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock water, Irrigation, mining or industrial purposes.
Page 298 - States (as defined in paragraph (a) of this section) , and to the Secretary of War, be subject to the same provisions regarding investigations, plans, proposals, and reports as prescribed in paragraph (a) of this section for the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War.
Page 260 - To agree to furnish, free of cost to the United States, all lands, easements, rights-of-way and spoil-disposal areas for the new work in the improvement of the Hudson River and for subsequent maintenance when and if required.
Page 152 - ... assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will : (1 ) Furnish free of cost to the United States all lands, easements, rights-of-way, and spoil-disposal areas...
Page 272 - This, however, is subject to the conditions that local interests furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the...
Page 297 - ... affected State or States, during the course of the investigations, Information developed by the Investigations and also opportunity for consultation regarding plans and proposals, and, to the extent deemed practicable by the ChIef of Engineers, opportunity to cooperate In the Investigations.
Page 147 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 : 30 am, Hon.
Page 75 - F2d 1286. Mr. Justice Douglas, whom Mr. Justice Black joins, dissenting. In 1945 Congress authorized the Benbrook Dam and Reservoir Project on the Clear Fork of the Trinity River near the southwest outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas. The authorization stated in part: "The improvement of the Trinity River and tributaries, Texas, for navigation, flood control, and allied purposes is hereby approved and authorized in accordance with the reports contained in House Document Numbered 403, Seventy-seventh Congress.