Flood Control in the Mississippi Valley: Hearings...1935 - 832 pages |
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... grade . It would cut down your flood height by that amount . If the Yazoo reservoirs were built they would restrain that amount of water from the main river . The CHAIRMAN . What effect would the completion of the work on the St ...
... grade . It would cut down your flood height by that amount . If the Yazoo reservoirs were built they would restrain that amount of water from the main river . The CHAIRMAN . What effect would the completion of the work on the St ...
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... grade . Mr. WHITTINGTON . In other words , you do nothing at all except to maintain it to the 1914 grade ? General MARKHAM . That is correct . Mr. WHITTINGTON . And in event of a crevasse , you would use this material in this 4 - mile ...
... grade . Mr. WHITTINGTON . In other words , you do nothing at all except to maintain it to the 1914 grade ? General MARKHAM . That is correct . Mr. WHITTINGTON . And in event of a crevasse , you would use this material in this 4 - mile ...
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... grade of 1914 of 60.5 . Mr. WHITTINGTON . That would be 60.5 at Arkansas City ? General MARKHAM . The fuseplug at the 1914 grade , I am told , would have to operate at 592 feet on the Arkansas gage . Mr. WHITTINGTON . At 591/2 feet on ...
... grade of 1914 of 60.5 . Mr. WHITTINGTON . That would be 60.5 at Arkansas City ? General MARKHAM . The fuseplug at the 1914 grade , I am told , would have to operate at 592 feet on the Arkansas gage . Mr. WHITTINGTON . At 591/2 feet on ...
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... grade- Mr. MCCLELLAN ( interposing ) . Then you would not have any spillway ? General MARKHAM . We would not have a fuseplug levee there . Mr. MCCLELLAN . You would not know where the levee was going to break ? General MARKHAM . No. Mr ...
... grade- Mr. MCCLELLAN ( interposing ) . Then you would not have any spillway ? General MARKHAM . We would not have a fuseplug levee there . Mr. MCCLELLAN . You would not know where the levee was going to break ? General MARKHAM . No. Mr ...
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... grade , for the protection it gives the territory below it at that grade . In my report , we are trying to save the lands of the valley from the operation of a fuseplug against floods greater than that of 1927 , or against what has been ...
... grade , for the protection it gives the territory below it at that grade . In my report , we are trying to save the lands of the valley from the operation of a fuseplug against floods greater than that of 1927 , or against what has been ...
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1928 tabulation acres amount Arkansas City Arkansas River Army engineers assessed value Atchafalaya Basin Atchafalaya River backwater area Boeuf Basin Boeuf floodway bonds issued bonds paid bonds unpaid CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers committee Congress construction cost County cut-offs DEAR Desha County destroyed and damaged drainage bonds Drainage District Dunklin County effect Eudora floodway feet FERGUSON Flood Control Act flood waters flowage rights Francis River fuseplug levee gage GILLISON Government highway HUDSON improvements JACOBS Jadwin plan KLORER land levee board Levee District Lieutenant Colonel HODGES Louisiana lower main river Major HOGE Major OLIVER Markham plan MCCLELLAN miles Mississippi River Commission Missouri Morehouse Parish Morganza Morganza spillway Number overflow Parish PHARR protection question RANSDELL recommendation reservoirs rights-of-way road bonds SANDERS school bonds second-feet spillway statement superflood Tensas tion Total tributaries understand United valley Vicksburg WHITTINGTON WILLIAMSON Yazoo River ZIMMERMAN
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Page 599 - I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution passed by the board of directors of the Tallulah State Bank & "Trust Co.
Page 469 - That the sum of $5,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be allotted by the Secretary of War on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, in rescue work or in the repair or maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood including the flood of 1927.
Page 599 - Texas, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is a true and correct copy of Resolution No.
Page 507 - ... construction would unreasonably restrict the flood channel, and lands in such stretch of the river are subjected to overflow and damage which are not now overflowed or damaged by reason of the construction of levees on the opposite banks of the river it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers to institute proceedings on behalf of the United States Government to acquire either the absolute ownership of the lands so subjected to overflow and damage or floodage rights...
Page 507 - Act it shall be found that upon any stretch of the banks of the Mississippi River it is impracticable to construct levees, either because such construction is not economically justified or because such construction would unreasonably restrict the flood channel, and lands in such stretch of the river are subjected to overflow and damage which are not now overflowed or damaged...
Page 220 - Authority, certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the resolution adopted by the board of directors for Brazos River Authority at the regular meeting on October 16, 1956, held in Mineral Wells, Tex.
Page 24 - River for protection against the floods of- that river; in view of the extent of national concern in the control of these floods in the interests of national prosperity, the flow of interstate commerce, and the movement of the United States mails; and, in view of the gigantic scale of the project, involving flood waters of a volume and flowing from a drainage area largely outside the States most affected, and far exceeding those of any other river in the United States, no local contribution to the...
Page 232 - ... That the Governor of the State be, and he is hereby authorized to accent said lands under such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon by the authorized repreActs Nos.