Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... Point Pleasant , La .. Driver , Hon . William J. , Representative in Congress from Arkansas . Jacobs , Harry , associate engineer , State of Louisiana . Lant , N. E. , bridge engineer , Louisiana Highway Commission_ . Morgan , Louis I ...
... Point Pleasant , La .. Driver , Hon . William J. , Representative in Congress from Arkansas . Jacobs , Harry , associate engineer , State of Louisiana . Lant , N. E. , bridge engineer , Louisiana Highway Commission_ . Morgan , Louis I ...
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... Point . Down here , where this levee was when the Flood Control Act was adopted , there is a distance of 152 miles . These are plantations and farms containing a little over 9,600 acres of land . The old levee line was 151⁄2 miles ...
... Point . Down here , where this levee was when the Flood Control Act was adopted , there is a distance of 152 miles . These are plantations and farms containing a little over 9,600 acres of land . The old levee line was 151⁄2 miles ...
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... point . As to the people who have opposed these set - backs heretofore , possibly this bill might create a sentiment in their minds that the thing to do is to set it back because they will be paid for the land taken by the Army ...
... point . As to the people who have opposed these set - backs heretofore , possibly this bill might create a sentiment in their minds that the thing to do is to set it back because they will be paid for the land taken by the Army ...
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... point . Those things were all known to the engineers , and they exercised their judgment , based exclusively upon the question of the economies of the situation . The levee boards at that time were involved . They were required to ...
... point . Those things were all known to the engineers , and they exercised their judgment , based exclusively upon the question of the economies of the situation . The levee boards at that time were involved . They were required to ...
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... point , up to the 1928 grade and section . It would only cost $ 200,000 to build this two and a quarter miles of levee across that point , and the engi- neers built that cut - off levee here [ indicating on map ] . Mr. WEARIN ...
... point , up to the 1928 grade and section . It would only cost $ 200,000 to build this two and a quarter miles of levee across that point , and the engi- neers built that cut - off levee here [ indicating on map ] . Mr. WEARIN ...
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100 percent acre ally paid Act of 1928-Continued amount obligation paid Amount taken Assessed Amounts not paid Arkansas Ascension Parish Atchafalaya Basin Levee Atchafalaya levee district Basin Levee District Bayou Boeuf Bayou Goula Black River built under Flood CHAIRMAN Charles Parish construction material_ Contract construction of United cost of project district for construction Flood Control Act Highway Levee Highway Highway Total amount Iberville Parish James Parish Lafourche Levee District Lake Borgne Landry length levee board Levee Highway Levee levee highway project Levee Highway Total levees built material_ Contract payments ments actu miles miscellaneous expenses Mississippi River old levee paid by Atchafalaya paid to date plantation Plaquemine Parish Pointe Coupee Parish Pontchartrain Levee District Port Allen Price per ments right-of-way acquired Right-of-way and miscellaneous river edge set-back levees Tabulation of right-of-way taken Assessed value toe of old Total amount obligation Total cost United States levees value of land WHITTINGTON
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Page 204 - District is composed of the parishes of East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, and Concordia.
Page 33 - 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 202 - ... accountability, it would transfer the responsibility for the administration of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act from its Board of Directors appointed by the President for that purpose to the General Accounting Office in Washington. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will meet at 3 o'clock this afternoon. (Whereupon the committee recessed until 3 pm of the same day.) AFTER RECESS (The committee reassembled at 3 pm, pursuant to recess.) The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please be in order. I believe...
Page 10 - ... is worthy of your consideration. I am not asking for an increase in the appropriation. It is just a matter of getting the most for the money that you are going to spend. I thank you, gentlemen. Mr. WOODRUM. Thank you, Mr. McClellan. THURSDAY MAY 6, 1937. RELIEF APPROPRIATION Mr. WOODRUM. Mr. Lasser, if you desire to make a statement, we will be very glad to year you at this time. STATEMENT OF DAVID IASSER, REPRESENTING THE WORKERS' ALLIANCE OF AMERICA Mr. LASSER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of...