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 |
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... damages , I want to see if I understand your position correctly . In other words , if your conclusions are wrong about damage done to crops south of Krotz Springs , you would not want the act to foreclose you from doing justice where ...
... damages , I want to see if I understand your position correctly . In other words , if your conclusions are wrong about damage done to crops south of Krotz Springs , you would not want the act to foreclose you from doing justice where ...
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... damage in the 1927 flood , would it not ? Or could you estimate it ? General FERGUSON . No , sir ; it would not be much damage . The CHAIRMAN . Then the only thing that would exceed that would be the superflood ? General FERGUSON . Yes ...
... damage in the 1927 flood , would it not ? Or could you estimate it ? General FERGUSON . No , sir ; it would not be much damage . The CHAIRMAN . Then the only thing that would exceed that would be the superflood ? General FERGUSON . Yes ...
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... damages in estimating the cost of damages to lands and property for the con- struction of the reservoirs . What was generally the measure of damage that was used ? I would like to know whether you used the market value or the assessed ...
... damages in estimating the cost of damages to lands and property for the con- struction of the reservoirs . What was generally the measure of damage that was used ? I would like to know whether you used the market value or the assessed ...
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... damaged in case those are used , the area in there ? What percent of that area that you said was included in those ... damage that they will receive . Mr. FERGUSON . Are you just going to buy the land outright and just use it as a ...
... damaged in case those are used , the area in there ? What percent of that area that you said was included in those ... damage that they will receive . Mr. FERGUSON . Are you just going to buy the land outright and just use it as a ...
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... damage whatsoever . It is intended , you understand , with this floodway to have controlling works at the head of it which would cut off the flow of the flood waters long before the river got back within its natural banks , and even in ...
... damage whatsoever . It is intended , you understand , with this floodway to have controlling works at the head of it which would cut off the flow of the flood waters long before the river got back within its natural banks , and even in ...
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1928 tabulation acres amount Arkansas City Arkansas River Army engineers assessed value Atchafalaya Basin Atchafalaya River backwater area Bayou Boeuf Basin Boeuf floodway bonds issued bonds paid bonds unpaid build CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers committee Congress construction cost County crevasse cut-offs DEAR drainage bonds Drainage District East Carroll East Carroll Parish Eudora floodway feet FERGUSON Flood Control Act flood heights flood waters flowage rights Francis River fuseplug levee gage GILLISON Government grade and section guide levee highway improvements JACOBS Jadwin plan KLORER land levee board Levee District Lieutenant Colonel HODGES Louisiana Major HOGE Major OLIVER Markham plan MCCLELLAN miles Mississippi River Commission Missouri Morehouse Parish Morganza Morganza spillway overflow Parish PHARR proposed protection question railroad RANSDELL recommendation reservoirs SANDERS second-feet statement superflood Tensas Tensas Parish tion Total tributaries United valley Vicksburg WHITTINGTON WILLIAMSON Yazoo River ZIMMERMAN
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Page 744 - I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution passed by the board of directors of the Tallulah State Bank & Trust Co.
Page 33 - War that they will (a) maintain all flood-control works after their completion, except controlling and regulating spillway structures, including special relief levees; maintenance includes normally such matters as cutting grass, removal of weeds, local drainage, and minor repairs of main river levees...
Page 801 - I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, for scheduling this hearing.
Page 566 - That the sum of $5,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be allotted 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 tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood including the flood of 1927.
Page 270 - ... a tax sufficient to pay for said property so taken, not to exceed one-fourth of one mill on the dollar...
Page 210 - I do not want to take up the time of the committee but I am very much interested.
Page 253 - Authority, certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the resolution adopted by the board of directors for Brazos River Authority at the regular meeting on October 16, 1956, held in Mineral Wells, Tex.
Page 22 - River it is impracticable to construct levees, either because such construction is not economically justified or because such construction would unreasonably restrict the flood channel, and lands in such stretch of the river are subjected to overflow and damage which are not now overflowed or damaged by reason of the construction of levees on the opposite banks of the river...
Page 25 - River for protection against the floods of that river; in view of the extent of National concern in the control of these floods in the interests of national prosperity, the flow of interstate commerce, and the movement of the United States mails; and, in view of the gigantic scale of the project, involving flood waters of a volume and flowing from a drainage area largely outside the States most affected, and far exceeding those of any other river in the United States, no local contribution to the...
Page 340 - Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen of the committee. First I would like to express my...