Progress and Present Status of Flood Control on the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries: Hearings...1933 - 100 pages |
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... 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 that big set - back levee and the river . The old levee is ...
... 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 that big set - back levee and the river . The old levee is ...
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... lower section , extending on down here [ indicating ] to Morgan City . They are placed as close together as conditions seem to warrant at this time . They are now under construction . Really , these people down in the Atchafalaya basin ...
... lower section , extending on down here [ indicating ] to Morgan City . They are placed as close together as conditions seem to warrant at this time . They are now under construction . Really , these people down in the Atchafalaya basin ...
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... lower and save more land . But the people in the Atcha- falaya Basin [ indicating ] will bear the brunt of the whole business finally . The largest amount of water will escape there . If we protect them with side levees , that will be ...
... lower and save more land . But the people in the Atcha- falaya Basin [ indicating ] will bear the brunt of the whole business finally . The largest amount of water will escape there . If we protect them with side levees , that will be ...
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... lower Mississippi . Mr. CRAVENS . Just one thing more . Was there not a river down in New Orleans at one time or did not the Mississippi at one time cut . through and leave New Orleans dry ? General BROWN . You are speaking about the ...
... lower Mississippi . Mr. CRAVENS . Just one thing more . Was there not a river down in New Orleans at one time or did not the Mississippi at one time cut . through and leave New Orleans dry ? General BROWN . You are speaking about the ...
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... lower valley than this one here , east of Mason Ridge [ indicating ] . The CHAIRMAN . In relation to the question of navigation , Gen- eral , if there is any improvement that increases the carrying capacity of the river that would be a ...
... lower valley than this one here , east of Mason Ridge [ indicating ] . The CHAIRMAN . In relation to the question of navigation , Gen- eral , if there is any improvement that increases the carrying capacity of the river that would be a ...
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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.