Civil Functions, Volumes 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - Public works |
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acres additional Alaska communication system allotments to date amount appropriation approximately Army engineers asking authorized barge BEARD BOUSQUET bridge budget Cairo Canal cemetery Chairman channel Colonel JEWETT Colonel MARSHALL Colonel POTTER committee Congress construction continuing contract Corps of Engineers County Creek damage district dredging estimated cost estimated Federal cost facilities feet FERINGA fiscal year 1951 flood control flood-control project floodway Folsom Dam funds gentlemen going highway increase industrial January June 30 KERR kilowatts levees located lock and dam Los Angeles River maintenance McNary Dam miles Mississippi River Missouri River navigation NEWCOMER November 30 obligations Ohio River operation Panama Canal percent complete planning plant port present Public Law 429 RABAUT railroad record relocation request Reservoir rivers and harbors Sacramento Sacramento River scheduled statement TABER tentative allocation tion total estimated Federal town traffic tributaries United unobligated balance Valley waterway WIGGLESWORTH Yazoo
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Page 856 - Now, gentlemen, if there are any questions, I shall be glad to answer them. Mr.
Page 590 - Provide and maintain, without cost to the United States and in accordance with plans approved by the Chief of Engineers, a suitable and adequate public wharf for the accommodation of transient vessels.
Page 543 - Hetchy water and power supply and chief engineer of the engineering bureau of the public utilities commission of the city and county of San Francisco, Calif.
Page 343 - I see you are very busy here, but if there are any questions you would like to ask, I will try to answer them. Mr.
Page 343 - The sum of $15,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be allocated by the Secretary of War on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in rescue work or in the repair or maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributary of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood heretofore or hereafter occurring...
Page 531 - Creek is now from four to five thousand aore-feet per year. Several hundred thousand dollars of local money have been spent in the construction of conservation works and spreading grounds, but the saving of water in time of large floods is feasible only by detention storage and debris removal, both of which the proposed dam will provide in satisfactory form. Damaging floods have occurred on this stream in the years 1906, 1909, 1914, 1916, 1922, 1927, 1938, and 1943.
Page 215 - RED RIVER LEVEES AND BANK STABILIZATION BELOW DENISON DAM, ARK., TEX, AND LA.
Page 374 - That the sum of $12,000,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers for the repair, restoration, and strengthening of levees and other flood-control works which have been threatened or destroyed by the recent floods, or which may be threatened or destroyed by later floods, and for completion of work begun under the Acts entitled "An Act to provide for emergency flood-control...
Page 510 - Kern River, with a watershed area of 2,400 square miles extending to the highest peaks of the Sierra, is one of four principal streams jointly responsible for intensive flood damage in the Tulare Lake Basin in California. It ranks highest of these four streams in the ratio of flood damage to the cost of its prevention and second in magnitude of flood flow. "The Tulare Lake Basin, constituting the southerly portion of fertile San...
Page 223 - Without objection it is so ordered. (The matter referred to is as follows:) VETERANS REGULATION No.