Progress and Present Status of Flood Control on the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries: Hearings...1933 - 100 pages |
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... enlarging since at a rather slow rate . It now carries about 1,253,000 second - feet . That is about 16 percent of the ... enlarged the channel above it for say 10 or 15 miles - washed the sand out . The sand filling in below it is ...
... enlarging since at a rather slow rate . It now carries about 1,253,000 second - feet . That is about 16 percent of the ... enlarged the channel above it for say 10 or 15 miles - washed the sand out . The sand filling in below it is ...
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... enlarged and not fill up , I have the theory that works . Mr. DEAR . If that theory works , it seems to me like you have a solution to that problem from there down to the mouth . General FERGUSON . Yes , sir ; but it is all troubled by ...
... enlarged and not fill up , I have the theory that works . Mr. DEAR . If that theory works , it seems to me like you have a solution to that problem from there down to the mouth . General FERGUSON . Yes , sir ; but it is all troubled by ...
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... enlarging without any assistance and 70 percent of the river goes through there now , and the boats use it now . Mr. WHITTINGTON . What was the distance around there before the cut - off ? General FERGUSON . About 9 miles , I think . Mr ...
... enlarging without any assistance and 70 percent of the river goes through there now , and the boats use it now . Mr. WHITTINGTON . What was the distance around there before the cut - off ? General FERGUSON . About 9 miles , I think . Mr ...
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... , about 55,000 yards . Mr. WHITTINGTON . Fifty - five thousand yards ? Major SOMERVELL . Yes , sir . Mr. WHITTINGTON . In rebuilding and enlarging those levees be- FLOOD CONTROL ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES 41.
... , about 55,000 yards . Mr. WHITTINGTON . Fifty - five thousand yards ? Major SOMERVELL . Yes , sir . Mr. WHITTINGTON . In rebuilding and enlarging those levees be- FLOOD CONTROL ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES 41.
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... enlarging those levees be- tween Memphis and the Bolivar County line- Major SOMERVELL ( interposing ) . That is ... enlargement ? Major SOMERVELL . Yes , sir ; whenever we felt that would give us a relatively permanent location , we used ...
... enlarging those levees be- tween Memphis and the Bolivar County line- Major SOMERVELL ( interposing ) . That is ... enlargement ? Major SOMERVELL . Yes , sir ; whenever we felt that would give us a relatively permanent location , we used ...
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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.