Flood Control in the Mississippi Valley: Hearings Before the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on a Plan to Modify and Extend the Project for Flood Control and Improvement of the Mississippi River Authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1928. April 1 to 13, 1935. Supplement |
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... gage will overtop it . * In the 1927 flood the levees were overtopped and broken at a stage of 60.5 feet on the Arkansas City gage . It has been carefully esti- mated that had this flow been confined it would have reached a stage of 8 ...
... gage will overtop it . * In the 1927 flood the levees were overtopped and broken at a stage of 60.5 feet on the Arkansas City gage . It has been carefully esti- mated that had this flow been confined it would have reached a stage of 8 ...
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... gage at Ar- kansas City , at this time is speculative . I am trying to deal be- fore the committee with actual facts and not theories . Experiments in the hydraulic laboratory , and you know what that is , or you have seen it- The ...
... gage at Ar- kansas City , at this time is speculative . I am trying to deal be- fore the committee with actual facts and not theories . Experiments in the hydraulic laboratory , and you know what that is , or you have seen it- The ...
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... gage constituted a menace to our properties , as well as to the properties of hundreds of customers on both sides of the river , both in Mississippi and in Louisiana , with whom we conducted a large business . The interest of our ...
... gage constituted a menace to our properties , as well as to the properties of hundreds of customers on both sides of the river , both in Mississippi and in Louisiana , with whom we conducted a large business . The interest of our ...
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... gage , the greater the extent of the backwaters in the lower Yazoo section . " " I may say , gentlemen , of that section of the country right here , that the landowner of that section has been the " forgotten man of the alluvial valley ...
... gage , the greater the extent of the backwaters in the lower Yazoo section . " " I may say , gentlemen , of that section of the country right here , that the landowner of that section has been the " forgotten man of the alluvial valley ...
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... gage is assumed to exist below the cut - off stretch , then the estimated stage of a 1927 flood , if confined , below this stretch corresponds to 68.9 , and the superflood , if confined , corresponds to 73.1 on the Arkansas City gage ...
... gage is assumed to exist below the cut - off stretch , then the estimated stage of a 1927 flood , if confined , below this stretch corresponds to 68.9 , and the superflood , if confined , corresponds to 73.1 on the Arkansas City gage ...
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151 reservoirs 26 reservoirs acres additional factor adopted project ALLEN April 29 Arkansas and White Arkansas City gage Arkansas River Army engineers assessed value bank believe Boeuf Basin break BUIE build CARLSON Carroll CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers committee compensation confined Congress construction crest stages cubic feet cut-offs Cypress Creek damage Delta district diversion effect Eudora spillway factor of safety favor feet at Arkansas FERGUSON FITZ-HUGH Flood Control Act flood heights flowage rights Franklin Parish fuse fuse-plug levee fuseplug gentlemen going Government grade and section Greenville guide levees Jadwin plan KELLNER land letter levee grade Louisiana lower Mississippi River Madison Parish Markham plan MARTIN MCCLELLAN miles Mississippi River Commission Mississippi side overflow Parish plug problem question RANSDELL recommended Red Rivers reduction reservoir report second-feet SHERROUSE statement STONE superflood Tensas Tensas Parish tion Vicksburg White and Arkansas White Rivers WHITTINGTON ZIMMERMAN