Flood Control in the Mississippi Valley: Hearings...1935 - 832 pages |
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... raise the Point Coupe Levee , as requested , indicates that there would be a rise in the lower part of the backwater of ... raised . Mr. DEAR . Why would there be less backwater in the area that I will call the backwater of the Red River ...
... raise the Point Coupe Levee , as requested , indicates that there would be a rise in the lower part of the backwater of ... raised . Mr. DEAR . Why would there be less backwater in the area that I will call the backwater of the Red River ...
Page 76
... raising water on anyone . Heretofore , the process had been to build the levees on either side of the river . Those levees raised the height of the water , and , of course , created a scour between them , but they raised the water first ...
... raising water on anyone . Heretofore , the process had been to build the levees on either side of the river . Those levees raised the height of the water , and , of course , created a scour between them , but they raised the water first ...
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... raised above what it was under old conditions . The CHAIRMAN . Do you contemplate that the discharge through the Atchafalaya would lessen or reduce the backwater area in the Red ? General FERGUSON . It will reduce it some , but for the ...
... raised above what it was under old conditions . The CHAIRMAN . Do you contemplate that the discharge through the Atchafalaya would lessen or reduce the backwater area in the Red ? General FERGUSON . It will reduce it some , but for the ...
Page 91
... raised to 1914 grade and section within the past few months . Some maintenance work has been performed by local interests at various localities along the fuseplug . Mr. MCCLELLAN . I want to ask you a question with reference to ...
... raised to 1914 grade and section within the past few months . Some maintenance work has been performed by local interests at various localities along the fuseplug . Mr. MCCLELLAN . I want to ask you a question with reference to ...
Page 92
... raised at that point . Mr. MCCLELLAN . That is the condition that has created the flood- way there at that point , is it not ? General FERGUSON . You have a right to a levee . Mr. MCCLELLAN . I am not questioning whether we have that ...
... raised at that point . Mr. MCCLELLAN . That is the condition that has created the flood- way there at that point , is it not ? General FERGUSON . You have a right to a levee . Mr. MCCLELLAN . I am not questioning whether we have that ...
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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.