Flood Control: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Seventy-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on May 29, 31, June 1, 2, 5-9, 12-15, 1944Considers (78) H.R. 4485. |
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... acre - feet of storage , and for power storage , approximately 328,000 acre - feet . Senator BURTON . Now , to get that straight , do I understand that the storage — which was directly related to the height of the dam , as I understand ...
... acre - feet of storage , and for power storage , approximately 328,000 acre - feet . Senator BURTON . Now , to get that straight , do I understand that the storage — which was directly related to the height of the dam , as I understand ...
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... acre - feet there to con- trol floods , you would have a very low dam , and it would be a much less expensive proposition ; but if it cannot be solved on its own feet , then it would be quite a problem to decide whether you build a high ...
... acre - feet there to con- trol floods , you would have a very low dam , and it would be a much less expensive proposition ; but if it cannot be solved on its own feet , then it would be quite a problem to decide whether you build a high ...
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... feet wide . Thence it widens to about one- half mile at Pitcairn . Theer are numerous large industrial plants ... acre - feet , of which 21,600 would be for flood control and 7,200 would be for low water flow improvement . The estimated ...
... feet wide . Thence it widens to about one- half mile at Pitcairn . Theer are numerous large industrial plants ... acre - feet , of which 21,600 would be for flood control and 7,200 would be for low water flow improvement . The estimated ...
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... feet to the mile from the source down to Blakely . Now , from the source down to Camden it is 62 feet to the mile ... acre - feet . Senator MCCLELLAN . A million nine hundred thousand something . Mr. McCLURE . Well , right at it . It is ...
... feet to the mile from the source down to Blakely . Now , from the source down to Camden it is 62 feet to the mile ... acre - feet . Senator MCCLELLAN . A million nine hundred thousand something . Mr. McCLURE . Well , right at it . It is ...
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... acre - feet passed the Blakely site . So we are going to ask the engineers to consider chang- ing their plans and reducing the amount of dead storage and advancing the flood storage to 800,000 acre - feet . It is not a thousand feet ...
... acre - feet passed the Blakely site . So we are going to ask the engineers to consider chang- ing their plans and reducing the amount of dead storage and advancing the flood storage to 800,000 acre - feet . It is not a thousand feet ...
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acre-feet acres agencies agricultural Arkansas Army engineers authorized BASHORE benefits Bureau of Reclamation Calif California Central Valley project Chairman CHEADLE Chief of Engineers CLARK of Missouri Colonel GOETHALS Colonel REBER Congress conservation construction Corps of Engineers County Creek crops Department farm feet flood control flood protection flood-control bill flood-control project Garrison Dam Governor SHARPE harbor bill hearings high dam House Document improvement interests Interior Kern River Kings River levees ment miles Mississippi Missouri River Basin multiple-purpose navigation objection operation percent Pick plan proposed purposes question recommendations Representative river and harbor ROBINS Sacramento River San Joaquin River Secretary Senator AIKEN Senator AUSTIN Senator BURTON Senator CLARK Senator CORDON Senator MCCLELLAN Senator MILLIKIN Senator OVERTON Senator ROBERTSON Shasta Dam statement storage streams subcommittee Table Mountain Dam tion tributaries Tulare Lake Tuolumne River United West Williamsville