Progress and Present Status of Flood Control on the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries: Hearings Before the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, Seventy-Third Congress, First Session, March 30 and May 12, 1933 |
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acquired adopted project Atcha Atchafalaya Basin Atchafalaya River back water backwater area bank protection Basin Levee District Bayou Boeuf Bayou des Glaises bend Boeuf Basin Bonnet Carre spillway BROWN carry CHAIRMAN channel Chief of Engineers Colonel HODGES committee Congress contemplated contract cubic feet cut-off Cypress Creek DEAR Diamond Point district engineer drainage dredging estimate falaya Federal Government feet per second FERGUSON Flood Control Act flood height flood plane flood waters floodway furnished the rights gage guide levees Gulf increase indicating on map JACOBS Lake land levee board levee construction Levee District levee line Louisiana lower end LUNDEEN main levee main river Major LARKIN Major SOMERVELL MARTIN Mississippi River Commission Morgan City mouth Natchez old levee Old River Orleans outlet Pine Bluff present protection levees Red River REID reimbursed revetment second-feet side Simmesport south bank tributaries valley Vicksburg Vicksburg district WHITTINGTON Yazoo
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Page 8 - If there are any questions that any member of the committee would like to ask, I will be glad to answer them.
Page 1 - An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for other purposes...
Page 67 - War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers: Provided, That a board to consist of the Chief of Engineers, the president of the Mississippi River Commission, and a civil engineer chosen from civil life to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, whose compensation shall be fixed by the President and be paid out of the appropriations made to carry on this project, is...
Page 67 - ... the act known as the Flood Control Act of May 15, 1928, that the reviewing board announced that it was ready to report on the engineering features of the two plans. This reviewing board, which was authorized to be created under section 1 of the Flood Control Act, consisted of the Chief of lOngineers, the president of the Mississippi River Commission, and a civilian engineer to be chosen by the President.
Page 23 - We will recess until 2 o'clock. (Thereupon the committee took a recess until 2 pm) AFTER RECESS The...
Page 65 - PROGRESS AND PRESENT STATUS OF FLOOD CONTROL ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 am, Hon. Riley J. Wilson (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. Some time ago the committee held hearings at which there appeared the Chief of Engineers of the Army, Gen. Lytle Brown ; Gen. Harley B. Ferguson, president of the Mississippi River Commission...