also construction of a levee along the diversion canal which would be formed by constructing a pilot channel, depending upon the initial high velocities to scour out a larger and more stabilized channel.

The levee along the canal section would provide for a 3-foot freeboard based on maximum known highwater on the creek, at a total Federal investment of $254,000. There is a favorable cost-benefit ratio of 1 to 2.84, and no unusual conditions of local cooperation. except to bear the expense of all necessary highway and bridge alterations.

The CHAIRMAN. The largest town in that area is Paris, is it not? Colonel GOETHALS. Yes, Paris.

The CHAIRMAN. Paris, Árk.?

Colonel GOETHALS. That is correct, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. The next project is the Little Missouri River, Ark., House Document 837, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session. Have those projects been approved by the Flood Control Act, and, if so, what act? Either you or General Robins may answer that.

Major General ROBINS. The 1941 act.

The CHAIRMAN. What amounts were to be spent on that river, or authorized in the 1941 act, for the record?

Major General ROBINS. Six and a half million dollars.

The CHAIRMAN. And what project was in mind?

Major General ROBINS. Known as the Narrows Reservoir project; Narrows Reservoir on the Little Missouri River.

The CHAIRMAN. Like all other reservoir projects, it has been suspended for the duration; is that correct?

Major General ROBINS. That is correct.

The CHAIRMAN. No appropriations are being made or are available? Major General ROBINS. That is correct.

The CHAIRMAN. Is there any other project along the Little Missouri River approved by that document?

Major General ROBINS. There are some channel improvements connected with this reservoir a considerable distance downstream on the Little Missouri River and on Terre Noire and Ozan Creeks that are tributary to the Little Missouri.

The CHAIRMAN. They have been authorized?

Major General ROBINS. It was all authorized in the 1941 act.

The CHAIRMAN. With respect to the North Concho River in Texas, House Document 315, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, what project has been authorized there and in what act?

Major General ROBINS. The San Angelo Reservoir for flood control and other purposes and a leveed floodway through the city of San Angelo on the North Concho authorized in the 1941 act. The 1941 act also authorized the Hords Creek Reservoir and enlargement of the existing Lake Brownwood Reservoir for flood control on the Pecan Bayou, in accordance with House Document 370, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session.

The CHAIRMAN. Those projects are available for increased authorization?

Major General ROBINS. Yes, sir. That is all that is necessary for them. They have all been authorized. There is also a local protec tion project on Brady Creek, in Brady, Tex.

The CHAIRMAN. The same thing is true with respect to the Brazos River?

Major General ROBINS. That is Whitney Reservoir. It is in the same category.

The CHAIRMAN. The dam has been approved and the $5,000,000 has been allocated for initiation of construction of the work, and that is available for additional authorization?

Major General ROBINS. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. And additional authorizations are required.

General Robins, under the act of 1938 and under the act of 1941. projects generally have been approved as recommended in Flood Control Committee Document 75, No. 1, Document 917, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, and House Document 290, Seventy-seventh Congress, first session; and in those acts something like $25,000,000 under the act of 1938 and $27,000,000 under the act of 1941 were made available for the construction and initiation of projects, and the other approved projects were available for additional authorizations? Major General ROBINS. That is correct.

The CHAIRMAN. That is along the White River.

What projects are under construction along the White River and its tributaries?

Major General ROBINS. Norfork Dam.

The CHAIRMAN. What is the present status of that project?

Major General ROBINS. It is about 85 or 90 percent complete. The Clearwater Dam on the Black River, a tributary of White River is also under construction.

The CHAIRMAN. What is its status?

Major General ROBINS. It is about 50 percent complete.

The CHAIRMAN. Has the work stopped?

Major General ROBINS. Yes, sir; the work has stopped on the Clearwater Dam. On the Norfork Dam the work is proceeding. On an expedited schedule to supply needed power.

The CHAIRMAN. On Clearwater the work has stopped, and on the Norfork Dam the work is proceeding?

Major General ROBINS. That is correct.

The CHAIRMAN. On the Arkansas River, in the acts of 1938 and 1941, projects have been authorized as recommended in Flood Control Committee Document No. 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, House Document 569, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session, House Document 107, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, and House Document 440, Seventysixth Congress, first session, including the local protective works mentioned in those acts, and also including reservoirs, where there were approximately 50 to 60 millions of dollars, in the aggregate, in those two acts authorized for the initiation and for the partial accomplishment in the construction of reservoirs; is that true?

Major General ROBINS. Yes, sir; that is true. There was an authorization of $50,000,000 provided.

The CHAIRMAN. So that there is available to the committee, in the report of any bill to provide for unemployment and needed public works following the war, other projects in those documents that the committee has already approved, aggregating many millions of dollars?

Major General ROBINS. Quite a few.

The CHAIRMAN. Along the Arkansas River there are levees between Pine Bluff and the mouth of the Arkansas River as a part of the lower Mississippi flood-control project on the right bank of the river, and

then there are certain local levees between Pine Bluff and Little Rock, and certain local levees between Little Rock and Fort Smith that have been constructed by the local interests, being in some cases reconstruction of recent projects.

Above Fort Smith what projects and reservoirs have been authorized and are under way, if any, from previous acts?

Major General ROBINS. Couchas, Great Salt Plains, and Fort Supply Reservoirs have been completed. John Martin Dam has been completed except for the crest gates and it is now in partial operation. Blue Mountain, Nimrod

The CHAIRMAN. Wait a minute. What happened to Blue Mountain? Has it been initiated?

Major General ROBINS. Yes; it has. Blue Mountain is below Fort Smith, so it would not apply to your question.

The CHAIRMAN. I would like to have what has been done below Fort Smith-any reservoirs along the Arkansas anywhere. Major General ROBINS. Canton, Blue Mountain, Nimrod

The CHAIRMAN. Blue Mountain is located between Little Rock and Fort Smith on what river?

Major General ROBINS. Blue Mountain is on the Petit Jean River, and Nimrod is on the Fourche La Fave.

The CHAIRMAN. Nimrod is also between Little Rock and Fort Smith?

Major General ROBINS. Yes. Canton is on the North Canadian, near Canton, Okla. Those are all that are now under construction. The CHAIRMAN. What is the status of the construction?

Major General ROBINS. Work is suspended for the duration. The CHAIRMAN. What other reservoirs generally have been authorized in that area and along the tributaries of the Arkansas?

Major General ROBINS. There are quite a number. There are four reservoirs on the Verdigris River and tributaries in Kansas, namely, Toronto, Neodesha, Fall River, and Elk City. There are also the Hulah Reservoir on the Caney River, Okla., Oologah on the Verdigris River, Okla.; Tenkiller Reservoir on the Illinois River; Wister on the Poteau; Mannford on the Cimarron; Pensacola, which is already constructed; and Markham Ferry and Fort Gibson, which go along with Pensacola on the Grand.

The CHAIRMAN. The Pensacola is already constructed, as I understand it.

Major General ROBINS. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. As I recall, the Pensacola was one of the dams that was approved in the Flood Control Act of 1938 primarily for construction for flood control. Am I correct about that?

Major General ROBINS. In Committee Document No. 1.

The CHAIRMAN. Committee Document No. 1, Seventy-fifth Congress. The Pensacola Dam is a part of a series of dams, as I express it, authorized by the act of August 18, 1941, to be constructed in connection with the dams below the Pensacola Dam, known as Markham Ferry and Fort Gibson. Am I correct about that?

Major General ROBINS. That is correct; yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. That dam was authorized in connection with the other two dams mentioned in the act of 1941, was it not?

Major General ROBINS. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. After having been previously approved as a single dam in Committee Document No. 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, in the act of 1938?

Major General ROBINS. In the act of 1938.

The CHAIRMAN. Generally, the Pensacola Dam is located along the Grand River about 75 or 80 miles north of the mouth of that river? Major General ROBINS. That is correct, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. And that river empties into the Arkansas at Muskogee?

Major General ROBINS. Near Muskogee.

The CHAIRMAN. Where does the Grand River take its source and how long is it, generally?

Major General ROBINS. The length of the river is 297 miles. It rises in Kansas. It has a drainage area above the dam of 10,415 square miles.

The CHAIRMAN. It is known as the Neosho River, too; is that right? Major General ROBINS. Yes; the Grand in Oklahoma and the Neosho in Kansas.

The CHAIRMAN. Will you indicate the general course of that river? [Indicated on map by Mr. Bousquet.]

The CHAIRMAN. It is about 300 miles long, and it goes through an agricultural country in Kansas and then it flows through northeastern Oklahoma to the site of the Pensacola Dam. There are pre

cipitous banks on one side of that river and on the other side there are no precipitous banks. On the other side you have an agricultural region. From the Pensacola site for some 75 or 80 miles south there is the mountain area or canyon country, as I express it; is that correct?

Major General ROBINS. That is generally true; yes.

The CHAIRMAN. This project of the Pensacola Dam-if you have House Document 107, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session-consists of the Pensacola, the Markham Ferry, and Fort Gibson Reservoir, at an estimated cost of what?

Major General ROBINS. $51,600,000.

The CHAIRMAN. As approved by Congress in the act of 1941, there was provision for Federal construction and Federal control, and the report was made by General Reybold, of the Corps of Engineers, who was the colonel and the division engineer, with headquarters at Little Rock at the time; am I correct about that?

Major General ROBINS. That is true, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. The report recommended the construction and operation of the three dams as a combined flood-control and power project, did it not?

Major General ROBINS. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. At an estimated cost to the Government of about $51,000,000, as you have stated?

Major General ROBINS. $51,600,000.

The CHAIRMAN. Where are the Markham Ferry Dam and the Fort Gibson Dam located with respect to the Pensacola?

Major General ROBINS. Markham Ferry is below Pensacola and Fort Gibson is below Markham Ferry, as shown there on the map. The CHAIRMAN. On page 29 of House Document 107, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, being the project that was approved by the

Congress upon the recommendation of this committee, there appear certain items. I will ask you to state what the height for the development of power at Pensacola was. I believe you will find the figures on page 29.

Major General ROBINS. Elevation, 735.

The CHAIRMAN. 735. That is the only elevation that the Congress of the United States has approved for the operation of the Pensacola Dam, and that, too, in connection with the operation of the two reservoirs or dams below that, known as Markham Ferry and Fort Gibson. When you said "Power pool elevation," that meant that the space above mean Gulf level 735 would be available for floodwaters; is that true?

Major General ROBINS. That is correct.

The CHAIRMAN. What were the acre-feet contemplated and what was the elevation above mean Gulf level at the top of the pool for flood-control purposes, as shown by that act?

Major General ROBINS. 755 mean Gulf level at the top of the pool, and the storage between 755 and 735 is 960,000 acre-feet for flood

control.

The CHAIRMAN. 960,000 acre-feet. In other words, the project as recommended by the division engineer, Colonel Reybold, as approved by the Chief of Engineers, contemplated 960,000 acre-feet for flood control between the level 735 and 755?

Major General ROBINS. That is correct.

The CHAIRMAN. By reference to the report, House Document 107, page 3, the report showed that, based upon the available data, it was estimated that there might be a maximum flood with a maximum discharge of 350,000 cubic feet per second at Pensacola, and the project as approved by the Congress was based upon that estimated maximum discharge? You will find it at the top of page 3.

Major General ROBINS. Yes, sir; that is correct.

The CHAIRMAN. Now, on page 5 the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors used this language:

and considers that the project is economically sound if operated in a manner not to prejudice the best interests either of flood control or of power development. That language was in the report approved by Congress, as I understand, shown on page 5.

Major General ROBINS. Yes; and the Chief of Engineers concurred in the views of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors. The CHAIRMAN. On page 6 it is stated in the report of the Chief of Engineers [reading]:

I believe, however, that the need for controlling flood flows of the Grand River, one of the principal flood-producing tributaries of the Arkansas River, makes it advisable to construct one of the reservoirs at an early date. Installation of power features would be deferred and the entire storage capacity utilized for flood control until such time as the demand for power justifies construction of the third reservoir and operation of the three-reservoir project in the combined interests of flood control and power development, as originally planned.

That is the language and the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, upon which this committee recommended the construction of this series of three reservoirs as a combined project to the Congress, as contained in the act of 1941.

Major General ROBINS. That is correct, sir.