Progress and Present Status of Flood Control on the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries: Hearings...1933 - 100 pages |
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... interests were required to furnish the rights of way for the main - line levees , were they not ? General BROWN . Yes , sir . Mr. WHITTINGTON . And in the actual construction of the project , the local interests have been required to ...
... interests were required to furnish the rights of way for the main - line levees , were they not ? General BROWN . Yes , sir . Mr. WHITTINGTON . And in the actual construction of the project , the local interests have been required to ...
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... interests of the United States . We will move it over this way or that way , leave it to the local people to say where they want it . Mr. BURKE . You say that reservoirs offer no real help . Is the difficulty the matter of expense or is ...
... interests of the United States . We will move it over this way or that way , leave it to the local people to say where they want it . Mr. BURKE . You say that reservoirs offer no real help . Is the difficulty the matter of expense or is ...
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... interest : This flow is now 500,000 cubic feet , and the Red River contributes about 300,000 feet . At a little over bank - full stage there is about 550,000 cubic feet . Therefore you have an outlet for 500,000 cubic feet and an inflow ...
... interest : This flow is now 500,000 cubic feet , and the Red River contributes about 300,000 feet . At a little over bank - full stage there is about 550,000 cubic feet . Therefore you have an outlet for 500,000 cubic feet and an inflow ...
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... interest in it . I think he considered we made him a good fence around it . Mr. WHITTINGTON . So you are acquiring the flowage rights there for that cut - off ? General FERGUSON . Yes , sir . Mr. WHITTINGTON . What do you mean by the ...
... interest in it . I think he considered we made him a good fence around it . Mr. WHITTINGTON . So you are acquiring the flowage rights there for that cut - off ? General FERGUSON . Yes , sir . Mr. WHITTINGTON . What do you mean by the ...
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... interests any where along the river been able thus far , or have they made any contribution toward extending the protection from the main river to the backwater areas , as required by the adopted project ? General FERGUSON . On the Ohio ...
... interests any where along the river been able thus far , or have they made any contribution toward extending the protection from the main river to the backwater areas , as required by the adopted project ? General FERGUSON . On the Ohio ...
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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.