Progress and Present Status of Flood Control on the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries: Hearings...1933 - 100 pages |
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... Orleans , Colonel Hodges . There is also present an officer from my office , Colonel Graves , who has been connected with this work ever since the be- ginning , and who had a very large hand in planning it . Major McCoach , the ...
... Orleans , Colonel Hodges . There is also present an officer from my office , Colonel Graves , who has been connected with this work ever since the be- ginning , and who had a very large hand in planning it . Major McCoach , the ...
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... Orleans has caused the flood planes to be raised very much over what it was when the water could escape out into the lowlands on each side of the river and find its way through various routes to the sea . There is also a storage of ...
... Orleans has caused the flood planes to be raised very much over what it was when the water could escape out into the lowlands on each side of the river and find its way through various routes to the sea . There is also a storage of ...
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... Orleans , even with this escape into the Atchafalaya Basin . Therefore , to be as- sured of the protection of the city of New Orleans , which is the greatest port on the Gulf , and one of the greatest in the country , there was an ...
... Orleans , even with this escape into the Atchafalaya Basin . Therefore , to be as- sured of the protection of the city of New Orleans , which is the greatest port on the Gulf , and one of the greatest in the country , there was an ...
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... Orleans are the most touchy points . For that reason this part of the work [ indicating ] was started earlier and it is about 90 percent completed . Such is the present status of the work . We hope and expect to complete the main levee ...
... Orleans are the most touchy points . For that reason this part of the work [ indicating ] was started earlier and it is about 90 percent completed . Such is the present status of the work . We hope and expect to complete the main levee ...
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... Orleans , and the levee construction on the main channel of the river . General BROWN . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . At what time may we expect the completion of those uncontroverted features , the main features ; that is , the flood- way ...
... Orleans , and the levee construction on the main channel of the river . General BROWN . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . At what time may we expect the completion of those uncontroverted features , the main features ; that is , the flood- way ...
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acquired adopted project Atcha Atchafalaya Basin Atchafalaya River back water backwater area bank protection Bayou Boeuf Bayou des Glaises bend Boeuf Basin Bonnet Carre spillway BROWN carry CHAIRMAN channel Chief of Engineers Colonel HODGES committee Congress contemplated contract cost cubic feet cut-off Cypress Creek DEAR Diamond Point district engineer drainage dredging estimate falaya Federal Government feet per second FERGUSON Flood Control Act flood height flood plane flood waters floodway furnished the rights gage guide levees Gulf increase indicating on map JACOBS Lake land levee board levee construction Levee District levee line Louisiana lower end LUNDEEN main levee main river Major LARKIN Major SOMERVELL MARTIN Memphis Mississippi River Commission Morgan City mouth Natchez old levee Old River Orleans outlet Pine Bluff protection levees Red River REID reimbursed reservoir revetment sand second-feet side Simmesport south bank tributaries valley Vicksburg Vicksburg district WHITTINGTON Yazoo
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Page 6 - If there are any questions that any member of the committee would like to ask, I will be glad to answer them.
Page 63 - ENGINEER OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee: The levee boards and the board of State engineers of Louisiana are very much impressed with the statements made here by General Brown and General Ferguson on the development of the problems of flood control and the execution of the adopted plan, insofar as it affects Louisiana, at the recent hearings...
Page 63 - The committee met at 10 am, Hon. Riley J. Wilson (chairman) presiding. The CHAIBMAN.