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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... stage : Provided further , That is the Chief of En- gineers finds that it has been or will be necessary or advisable to change the location of any such flood - control work in order to provide the protection contemplated by this section ...
... stage : Provided further , That is the Chief of En- gineers finds that it has been or will be necessary or advisable to change the location of any such flood - control work in order to provide the protection contemplated by this section ...
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... stage : Provided further , That is the Chief of En- gineers finds that it has been or will be necessary or advisable to change the location of any such flood - control work in order to provide the protection contemplated by this section ...
... stage : Provided further , That is the Chief of En- gineers finds that it has been or will be necessary or advisable to change the location of any such flood - control work in order to provide the protection contemplated by this section ...
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... stage corresponding to 51 feet on the Vicksburg gage ( about 9 feet below the levee grade ) , and will be stopped when the flood has receded to that stage . It is not intended that the spillway will be operated at all unless the ...
... stage corresponding to 51 feet on the Vicksburg gage ( about 9 feet below the levee grade ) , and will be stopped when the flood has receded to that stage . It is not intended that the spillway will be operated at all unless the ...
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... stage . It is not to be oper- ated at all unless the predicted flood exceeds the safe capacity of the leveed ... stages . The work includes the enlargement of the openings of existing railroad and high- way bridges across the Atchafalaya ...
... stage . It is not to be oper- ated at all unless the predicted flood exceeds the safe capacity of the leveed ... stages . The work includes the enlargement of the openings of existing railroad and high- way bridges across the Atchafalaya ...
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... stage of 59 feet on the Cairo gage , whereas without such relief it would reach a stage of about 66 feet , which is 6 feet above the present levee grade at Cairo . Since ' lowering the main river levee below Birds Point reduces the ...
... stage of 59 feet on the Cairo gage , whereas without such relief it would reach a stage of about 66 feet , which is 6 feet above the present levee grade at Cairo . Since ' lowering the main river levee below Birds Point reduces the ...
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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...