Flood Control in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3531, a Bill to Amend the Act Entitled "An Act for the Control of Floods on the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries and for Other Purposes", Approved May 15, 1928, January 27, 28, 29 and 30, 1936 |
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... amounts of property , and even endangering lives . In 1928 the policy of controlling through national legislation and ... amount as would be diverted through the Boeuf floodway . Proposals have been made for the control of floods on the ...
... amounts of property , and even endangering lives . In 1928 the policy of controlling through national legislation and ... amount as would be diverted through the Boeuf floodway . Proposals have been made for the control of floods on the ...
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... amount of one - third the cost of construction from local levee districts or other local interests . In a sense that is true . I desire , however , to point out for the consideration of the sub- committee the fact that the lands within ...
... amount of one - third the cost of construction from local levee districts or other local interests . In a sense that is true . I desire , however , to point out for the consideration of the sub- committee the fact that the lands within ...
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... amount to be paid , the Government will be mulcted in excessive sums . I do not believe that is sound argument , sound theory . If agreements cannot be reached the courts may be resorted to . And I should not like to take the position ...
... amount to be paid , the Government will be mulcted in excessive sums . I do not believe that is sound argument , sound theory . If agreements cannot be reached the courts may be resorted to . And I should not like to take the position ...
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... amount to very little unless it is completed . The two hundred and some - odd millions of dollars that have been spent will be largely wasted unless additional funds are appropriated and the original plan , or the plan as proposed by ...
... amount to very little unless it is completed . The two hundred and some - odd millions of dollars that have been spent will be largely wasted unless additional funds are appropriated and the original plan , or the plan as proposed by ...
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... amount that can safely pass the city and port terminals at New Orleans , a controlled spill- way has been constructed above the city at Bonnet Carre , through which ex- cess flood waters can be passed into Lake Pontchartrain , FLOOD ...
... amount that can safely pass the city and port terminals at New Orleans , a controlled spill- way has been constructed above the city at Bonnet Carre , through which ex- cess flood waters can be passed into Lake Pontchartrain , FLOOD ...
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26 reservoirs acres adopted project Arkansas and White Arkansas City Arkansas River assessed value Atchafalaya Basin Atchafalaya River backwater area bill Boeuf Basin Boeuf floodway Chairman channel Chief of Engineers Committee on Flood compensation Congress construction cost crevasse cut-offs damage discharge drainage easements East Carroll East Carroll Parish estimated Eudora floodway FERGUSON Flood Control Act Flood Control Committee flood heights flood waters flow flowage rights fuseplug levee gage going Government guide levees hearings highway JACOBS KEMPER Laconia Circle lands levee boards levee district levee grade Louisiana main river MARKHAM miles Mississippi River Commission Morganza floodway outlet overflow Parish percent present property owners proposed question railroad RANSDELL reason recommended Red River reduce Representative MILLER River levee second-feet Senator BILBO Senator OVERTON Senator SHEPPARD spillway stage statement SUMMERLIN superflood Tensas Tensas Parish tion tributaries tupelo United Vicksburg White River Yazoo River
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Page 155 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 35 - That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 36 - The 1928 act authorized $5,000,000 which has been exhausted and the 1936 act authorized $15,000,000 to replenish these funds to be allocated by the Secretary of War on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in rescue work or in the repair and maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood heretofore or hereafter occurring.
Page 35 - Provided, That the reservoirs for control of headwater flow of the Yazoo River system may be located by the Chief of Engineers, in his discretion: And provided further, That the Chief of Engineers may, in his discretion, substitute levees, floodways, or auxiliary channels, or any or all of them, for any or all of the seven detention reservoirs...
Page 35 - Numbered 391, approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 534), Seventieth Congress, entitled "An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for other purposes...
Page 24 - SEC. 8. That, in addition to the construction by the United States of roads in connection with floodways as heretofore provided, the Federal Government may, in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers, and within the limits of available funds, construct additional roads to afford access to those portions of the levee lines not otherwise accessible.
Page 35 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Mates of America in Congress assembled, That...