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 foundations , and since the passage of the act they have spent $ 41,000,000 for that purpose . It is a matter ... old levee in some places is still there . But as the bank caves away the old levee line will go out . Mr. ZIMMERMAN ...
... levee foundations , and since the passage of the act they have spent $ 41,000,000 for that purpose . It is a matter ... old levee in some places is still there . But as the bank caves away the old levee line will go out . Mr. ZIMMERMAN ...
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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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... levee lands on the Mississippi River in accordance with the number of miles contained therein , and bringing that up ... old- developed areas of that river , containing 3,200 acres of the most highly developed land you will find in the ...
... levee lands on the Mississippi River in accordance with the number of miles contained therein , and bringing that up ... old- developed areas of that river , containing 3,200 acres of the most highly developed land you will find in the ...
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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...