Flood Control: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 4485 ... May 29-June 15, 1944 |
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... farm products , $ 59,000,000 . There is no existing Federal flood - control project in the Roanoke River Basin . There is an existing Federal project for improvement of Roanoke River for navigation , which generally is provided now up ...
... farm products , $ 59,000,000 . There is no existing Federal flood - control project in the Roanoke River Basin . There is an existing Federal project for improvement of Roanoke River for navigation , which generally is provided now up ...
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... farming , and stock raising are the chief occupa- tions . The products of agriculture consist generally of potatoes , wheat , and rye . There is no existing project for flood control in this basin . Floods have occurred frequently , on ...
... farming , and stock raising are the chief occupa- tions . The products of agriculture consist generally of potatoes , wheat , and rye . There is no existing project for flood control in this basin . Floods have occurred frequently , on ...
Page 47
... farming . The farms are generally in small tracts in the valley territory and usable farm lands . Sand , gravel , stone , timber , and natural gas are the natural resources . There is an existing flood - control project here authorized ...
... farming . The farms are generally in small tracts in the valley territory and usable farm lands . Sand , gravel , stone , timber , and natural gas are the natural resources . There is an existing flood - control project here authorized ...
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... farming area of the valley , but in 1 year ago the county assessor had to write off $ 200,000 in assessed valuation because the uncontrolled Sacramento River turned some of our finest orchards and farm land into gravel bars . Col. A. M. ...
... farming area of the valley , but in 1 year ago the county assessor had to write off $ 200,000 in assessed valuation because the uncontrolled Sacramento River turned some of our finest orchards and farm land into gravel bars . Col. A. M. ...
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... farming and the raising of livestock . The average annual precipitation varies from a low of 9 inches on the floor of the valley near Redmond , to about 15 inches in the higher plateau areas , and exceeds 25 inches in the high mountains ...
... farming and the raising of livestock . The average annual precipitation varies from a low of 9 inches on the floor of the valley near Redmond , to about 15 inches in the higher plateau areas , and exceeds 25 inches in the high mountains ...
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acre-feet acres agencies agricultural Arkansas Army engineers authorized BASHORE benefits Bureau of Reclamation Calif California Central Valley project Chairman CHEADLE Chief of Engineers CLARK of Missouri Colonel GOETHALS Colonel REBER Congress conservation construction Corps of Engineers County Creek crops Department farm feet flood control flood protection flood-control bill flood-control project Governor SHARPE harbor bill hearings high dam House Document improvement interests Interior irrigation district Kern River Kings River levees ment miles Mississippi Missouri River Basin multiple-purpose navigation objection operation percent Pick plan proposed purposes question recommendations Representative river and harbor ROBINS Sacramento River San Joaquin River Secretary Senator AIKEN Senator AUSTIN Senator BURTON Senator CLARK Senator CORDON Senator MCCLELLAN Senator MILLIKIN Senator OVERTON Senator ROBERTSON Shasta Dam statement storage streams subcommittee Table Mountain Dam tion tributaries Tulare Lake Tuolumne River United West Williamsville
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Page 719 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 719 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the. public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Page 719 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 33 - California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered 630, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 808 - Preference in the .sale of such power and energy shall be given to public bodies and cooperatives.
Page 249 - River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making, the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking...
Page 249 - Indian reservations, and other beneficial uses, and for the generation and sale of electric energy as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings and in order to permit the full utilization of the works constructed to accomplish the aforesaid purposes...
Page 251 - 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 42 - The Constitution of the United States provides that " the Congress shall have power "" to regulate commerce
Page 808 - Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission.