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The land area involved in the 1,200 - mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Cairo to the Gulf is small , only 74,578 ... Down here , where this levee was when the Flood Control Act was adopted , there is a distance of 152 miles .
The land area involved in the 1,200 - mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Cairo to the Gulf is small , only 74,578 ... Down here , where this levee was when the Flood Control Act was adopted , there is a distance of 152 miles .
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Say you go back 15 miles and make the levee permanent , you leave his plantation out between that and the river , and the Government fixes it on a more permanent basis . Mr. RICH . If we were to pass a bill of this kind , would there be ...
Say you go back 15 miles and make the levee permanent , you leave his plantation out between that and the river , and the Government fixes it on a more permanent basis . Mr. RICH . If we were to pass a bill of this kind , would there be ...
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... 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 the river .
... 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 the river .
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The difference between the cost of levee construction and revet- ment construction was about $ 200,000 per mile for levees , and about $ 400,000 per mile for revetment , and therefore it would be cheaper to build the loop levees than to ...
The difference between the cost of levee construction and revet- ment construction was about $ 200,000 per mile for levees , and about $ 400,000 per mile for revetment , and therefore it would be cheaper to build the loop levees than to ...
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After estimating anew the cost of the enlargement of the levee lands on the Mississippi River in accordance with the number of miles contained therein , and bringing that up to the new adopted grade and section , the engineers - I am ...
After estimating anew the cost of the enlargement of the levee lands on the Mississippi River in accordance with the number of miles contained therein , and bringing that up to the new adopted grade and section , the engineers - I am ...
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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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| Title | Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349... |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control |
| Published | 1935 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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