Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... drained , and with everything in the world to make that plantation one of the most desirable properties you could conceive of . It would cost the Government $ 450,000 to bring this existing levee along near the bank of the Mississippi ...
... drained , and with everything in the world to make that plantation one of the most desirable properties you could conceive of . It would cost the Government $ 450,000 to bring this existing levee along near the bank of the Mississippi ...
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... drains to the west , into another river ; and , as a result of building this new levee , our drainage is cut off , and since 1928 the larger portion of this land has been covered with water and we have not even been able to use it for ...
... drains to the west , into another river ; and , as a result of building this new levee , our drainage is cut off , and since 1928 the larger portion of this land has been covered with water and we have not even been able to use it for ...
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... drainage , being cut off by the new levee , of course all of the rainfall that falls is kept right on that land . Now , we paid an annual tax for the last 30 years ranging around $ 2,100 or $ 2,200 ; but the tax commission , recognizing ...
... drainage , being cut off by the new levee , of course all of the rainfall that falls is kept right on that land . Now , we paid an annual tax for the last 30 years ranging around $ 2,100 or $ 2,200 ; but the tax commission , recognizing ...
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... drainage was shut off by the building of the set - back ? Dr. WOLFE . The new levee cut off our drainage . Our land slopes this way [ indicating ] , and goes to another river . Mr. WILSON . If you understood your statement correctly ...
... drainage was shut off by the building of the set - back ? Dr. WOLFE . The new levee cut off our drainage . Our land slopes this way [ indicating ] , and goes to another river . Mr. WILSON . If you understood your statement correctly ...
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... drainage from that area , that previous to building the set - back , the water flowed into another river , and did not go back into the Mississippi River ? Dr. WOLFE . No ; the land is drained to the west . The river is on the east . Mr ...
... drainage from that area , that previous to building the set - back , the water flowed into another river , and did not go back into the Mississippi River ? Dr. WOLFE . No ; the land is drained to the west . The river is on the east . Mr ...
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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...