SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan JOE L. EVINS, Tennessee EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts JAMES C. MURRAY, Illinois DON MAGNUSON, Washington GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin CARSON CULP, Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, INTERESTED usen. PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1957 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan JOHN E. FOGARTY, Rhode Island EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts JAMES C. MURRAY, Illinois DON MAGNUSON, Washington GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin CARSON CULP, Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, INTERESTED UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1956 DOCUMENTS COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas ANTONIO M. FERNANDEZ, New Mexico OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massach H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota JOHN PHILLIPS, California ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Kansas FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York CLIFF CLEVENGER, Ohio EARL WILSON, Indiana GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin BENJAMIN F. JAMES, Pennsylvania GERALD R. FORD, JR., Michigan EDWARD T. MILLER, Maryland KENNETH SPRANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director لا A6 84th V. 28 DOCUMENTS PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1957 BEFORE THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS APPROPRIATIONS HON. JOHN J. RHODES, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF ARIZONA Mr. KIRWAN. The committee will be in order. We have with us this morning Congressman Rhodes, of Arizona. Mr. RHODES. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I am going to be very brief this morning because I think the subcommittee knows quite a bit about this particular project. Last year, we had residents of the State of Arizona and the commanding officer of Williams Air Force Base here to testify on this project. The project was approved by the Army engineers too late to get in the budget last year; however, it is in the budget this year. The Whitlow Ranch Dam would impound a stream that is dry about 360 days out of the year. The 5 days that it is not dry, it does considerable damage. When we get a torrential rain on the watershed, as we did 2 years ago, this little stream comes down and spreads across the desert. It not only inundates some fine farmland but it endangers Williams Air Force Base. I was stationed there from 1941 to 1945, and on several occasions I had to wade through water to get on the base. The base is protected by dikes but in this last flood Queen Creek apparently changed its course, so if it floods again, the course is very likely to be much closer to Williams Air Force Base, which will put much more of a strain on the dikes and could possibly result in a situation where they would lose a lot of property and damage a lot of airplanes. Those airplanes, as the committee knows, are worth quite a bit of money, and since the cost of this dam is not great, very likely one flood which broke into Williams Field would result in more loss to the Government than the cost of this dam. (1) |