Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... cost of flowage rights over all lands including compensa- tion for damages ... project herein adopted ; embracing those areas which were protected by the ... project until the State or levee districts have given assurances satisfactory to ...
... cost of flowage rights over all lands including compensa- tion for damages ... project herein adopted ; embracing those areas which were protected by the ... project until the State or levee districts have given assurances satisfactory to ...
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... project , without their consent or consultation , the rule was voted down ... cost ? In an approximate estimate given by Gen. Lytle Brown , the Chief of ... project for the general welfare . Yet it has been con- tended by some that the ...
... project , without their consent or consultation , the rule was voted down ... cost ? In an approximate estimate given by Gen. Lytle Brown , the Chief of ... project for the general welfare . Yet it has been con- tended by some that the ...
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... cost of the necessary works under the provisions of that project , the engineers recommended the enlarge- ment of the entire levee system along the Mississippi River , in ac- cordance with the number of miles of existing levees then on ...
... cost of the necessary works under the provisions of that project , the engineers recommended the enlarge- ment of the entire levee system along the Mississippi River , in ac- cordance with the number of miles of existing levees then on ...
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... project . They agreed , because of the larger cost involved in the structures under that new definition of the grade and section , that they would locate all new construction of levees on the basis of a 30 - year period of protection ...
... project . They agreed , because of the larger cost involved in the structures under that new definition of the grade and section , that they would locate all new construction of levees on the basis of a 30 - year period of protection ...
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... project of 1928 has exceeded their former contribution by over 30 percent . Now , I want to show you what enters into that . After estimating anew the cost of the enlargement of the levee lands on the Mississippi River in accordance ...
... project of 1928 has exceeded their former contribution by over 30 percent . Now , I want to show you what enters into that . After estimating anew the cost of the enlargement of the levee lands on the Mississippi River in accordance ...
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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...