Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... 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 around . To maintain that and ...
... 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 around . To maintain that and ...
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... levee protection against floods ? The CHAIRMAN . In some instances their condition is a little better than that , because the old levee in some places is still there . But as the bank caves away the old levee line will go out . Mr ...
... levee protection against floods ? The CHAIRMAN . In some instances their condition is a little better than that , because the old levee in some places is still there . But as the bank caves away the old levee line will go out . Mr ...
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... levee line and put the homes and farms between the old levee line and the Missis- sippi River . But the work is practically completed on what they term the 30 - year basis . They did this to get permanent locations . For instance , take ...
... levee line and put the homes and farms between the old levee line and the Missis- sippi River . But the work is practically completed on what they term the 30 - year basis . They did this to get permanent locations . For instance , take ...
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... levee through it . Now , as to the price of the contribution , under the old 1917 law , which was renewed in 1923 , the Government contributed $ 2 for every one that the local levee districts expended , but plus the rights- of - way and ...
... levee through it . Now , as to the price of the contribution , under the old 1917 law , which was renewed in 1923 , the Government contributed $ 2 for every one that the local levee districts expended , but plus the rights- of - way and ...
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... old- developed areas of that river , containing 3,200 acres of the most highly developed land you will find in the country , between Cape Girardeau and the Gulf , 3,200 acres of as highly improved land as you will find anywhere in the ...
... old- developed areas of that river , containing 3,200 acres of the most highly developed land you will find in the country , between Cape Girardeau and the Gulf , 3,200 acres of as highly improved land as you will find anywhere in the ...
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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...