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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... LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER The project for flood control and improvement of the Lower Mississippi River adopted by the Act of May 15 , 1928 , as amended by subsequent Acts of Congress , is hereby modified in accordance with the ...
... LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER The project for flood control and improvement of the Lower Mississippi River adopted by the Act of May 15 , 1928 , as amended by subsequent Acts of Congress , is hereby modified in accordance with the ...
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... lower San Joaquin Rivers which would be adopted in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers con- tained in House Document 513 , Seventy - eighth Congress ; House Document 630 , Seventy - sixth Congress ; and Flood ...
... lower San Joaquin Rivers which would be adopted in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers con- tained in House Document 513 , Seventy - eighth Congress ; House Document 630 , Seventy - sixth Congress ; and Flood ...
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... lower Missouri and the upper Mississippi Rivers have again experienced floods approaching the all - time record . Beginning before Pearl Harbor , the construction of flood - control projects has been progressively curtailed until at the ...
... lower Missouri and the upper Mississippi Rivers have again experienced floods approaching the all - time record . Beginning before Pearl Harbor , the construction of flood - control projects has been progressively curtailed until at the ...
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... lower Missouri River , from Kansas City to the mouth ; and also on the Upper Mississippi River from the mouth of the Missouri River down to Cairo . I might say that I took occasion to observe those flood waters a short distance up from ...
... lower Missouri River , from Kansas City to the mouth ; and also on the Upper Mississippi River from the mouth of the Missouri River down to Cairo . I might say that I took occasion to observe those flood waters a short distance up from ...
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... lower basin ? Colonel GOETHALS . The whole basin , sir . The principal cities in the basin in Virginia are Roanoke and Dan- ville , and the principal one in North Carolina within the basin is Reids- ville . The principal industries are ...
... lower basin ? Colonel GOETHALS . The whole basin , sir . The principal cities in the basin in Virginia are Roanoke and Dan- ville , and the principal one in North Carolina within the basin is Reids- ville . The principal industries are ...
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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