Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... levee line was built , and this land is exposed to the flood waters of the main chan- nel of the Mississippi River . Mr. ZIMMERMAN . When was that 311⁄2 miles built ? The CHAIRMAN . In 1932 . What we are asking for is this : Inasmuch as ...
... levee line was built , and this land is exposed to the flood waters of the main chan- nel of the Mississippi River . Mr. ZIMMERMAN . When was that 311⁄2 miles built ? The CHAIRMAN . In 1932 . What we are asking for is this : Inasmuch as ...
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... levee is to be built . The individual is left out . Mr. RICH . There are no arrangements under the present law whereby there is some restitution to the farmer whose lands may be used ? The CHAIRMAN . Not except for the rights - of - way ...
... levee is to be built . The individual is left out . Mr. RICH . There are no arrangements under the present law whereby there is some restitution to the farmer whose lands may be used ? The CHAIRMAN . Not except for the rights - of - way ...
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... levee . Those are not all the elements that enter into this equation . When these levees are built up near the bank of the Mississippi River there is always the opportunity there for some future danger and the re- quirement of some ...
... levee . Those are not all the elements that enter into this equation . When these levees are built up near the bank of the Mississippi River there is always the opportunity there for some future danger and the re- quirement of some ...
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... built the necessary revetments and to have protected the relocation of the levees as contemplated in the act . In the lower Mississippi or Greenville Levee District there have been even larger relocations . There was an enormous set ...
... built the necessary revetments and to have protected the relocation of the levees as contemplated in the act . In the lower Mississippi or Greenville Levee District there have been even larger relocations . There was an enormous set ...
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... levees along the river . Dr. WOLFE . Never had any . Mr. RICH . Now , they built the set - back levees , and they seem to keep the water on your property from the storms and rains ? Dr. WOLFE . Yes , sir . Mr. RICH . Would it not be a ...
... levees along the river . Dr. WOLFE . Never had any . Mr. RICH . Now , they built the set - back levees , and they seem to keep the water on your property from the storms and rains ? Dr. WOLFE . Yes , sir . Mr. RICH . Would it not be a ...
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100 percent acres Amount taken Assessed Amounts not paid Arkansas Atchafalaya Basin Levee Bank Basin Levee District Baton Rouge Bayou bill Black River built under Flood CHAIRMAN Charles Church committee construction material_ Contract construction of United contract executed cost of project County district for construction drainage Engineering farm Flood Control Act going Government Gravel Highway Levee Highway Improve inclusive Interest JACOBS James John Joseph Lake Landside toe length levee board Levee Highway Levee levee highway project levees built Louisiana Mary ments actu miles miscellaneous expenses Mississippi River old levee Owner paid by Atchafalaya paid to date Parish PARISH-Continued plantation Point Pontchartrain Levee District Price per ments RICH right-of-way acquired Right-of-way and miscellaneous Square statement supervision surveys Tabulation of right-of-way taken Assessed value Total amount Total assessed Total cost Total taken United States levees value of land WHITTINGTON WOLFE
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Page 206 - 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 204 - ... 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...