Progress and Present Status of Flood Control on the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries: Hearings...1933 - 100 pages |
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... give you a very sketchy outline of the project , showing what has been done , what is being done at the present time ... give you any facts you desire , and if you want any of their opinions , they will be glad to give them . They are ...
... give you a very sketchy outline of the project , showing what has been done , what is being done at the present time ... give you any facts you desire , and if you want any of their opinions , they will be glad to give them . They are ...
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... give a greater discharge capacity of the river there and lower the stage at Cairo , or all the way up to Cairo and above . It also protects all of this area down in here [ indicating ] . There are about 136,000 acres of land between ...
... give a greater discharge capacity of the river there and lower the stage at Cairo , or all the way up to Cairo and above . It also protects all of this area down in here [ indicating ] . There are about 136,000 acres of land between ...
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... give priority to the places where the greatest danger or greatest damage may occur . We would like to cut off any head water from running over the land . Backwater does not do as much damage as the headwater does . The water that breaks ...
... give priority to the places where the greatest danger or greatest damage may occur . We would like to cut off any head water from running over the land . Backwater does not do as much damage as the headwater does . The water that breaks ...
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... give the same protection ? General BROWN . No ; I will tell you what that is . We built up the levees everywhere else and made them strong . One of the best cures , as I told you , for floods on the Mississippi River was cre- vasses ...
... give the same protection ? General BROWN . No ; I will tell you what that is . We built up the levees everywhere else and made them strong . One of the best cures , as I told you , for floods on the Mississippi River was cre- vasses ...
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... give anybody in a very short time the complete answer to the question . Mr. REID . General , did you say when your study would be com- pleted and when your report would be completed ? General BROWN . I hope it will be completed before ...
... give anybody in a very short time the complete answer to the question . Mr. REID . General , did you say when your study would be com- pleted and when your report would be completed ? General BROWN . I hope it will be completed before ...
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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.