quent to that of 1913 would flood these low-lying areas, assuming the operation of the 14 Muskingum River Reservoirs and the Dillon Reservoir. With the 14 Muskingum Reservoirs alone on the other hand they have been flooded several times since the system was placed in operation. The question of usability of land in Dillon Reservoir has been raised by some opponents of the project. In answer, we suggest a comparison with the Mohawk project, of which the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District has made such a fine show place. As Mohawk is adjacent to Dillon and controls a watershed of approximately the same size, it is reasonable to assume that land in Dillon Reservoir would be affected by flood waters to about the same extent. Mohawk Reservoir has a flood-storage capacity of 285,000 acre-feet and a net drainage area of 817 square miles. The highest flood-control capacity that has thus far been used in Mohawk Reservoir is 126,800 acre-feet of 44.5 percent of its capacity occurring on June 10, 1947. That flood inundated 4,968 acres of the total area of 7,950 acres. Dillon Reservoir has a total flood-storage capacity of 261,100 acre-feet, a drainage area of 748 square miles and a water surface area of 10,285 acres at spillway crest. Approximately 7,900 acres of the reservoir at spillway level are located in Muskingum County, the remaining 2,385 acres being located in Licking County. If Dillon Reservoir had been constructed and in operation during the June 1947 flood and had stored an amount of runoff equivalent to that stored at Mohawk Reservoir, 44.4 percent of its capacity would have been utilized. The flood would have inundated 5,012 acres in the reservoir, of which approximately 4,212 acres would be in Muskingum County and the remaining 800 acres in Licking County. Curves showing the frequency of filling of the Dillon Reservoir have been prepared and the following tabulation lists pool elevation versus frequency of occurrence for various pool elevations in the reservoir: The need for the completion of the Dillon project can be justified beyond doubt. Since the time that work was discontinued on the Dillon project, the need for its completion has been increased by the economic changes which have occurred in the Muskingum Valley during the past few years. A look at the map enclosed will show that the area from the point of the confluence of the Muskingum into the Ohio at Marietta, to the point of the Dillon Reservoir above Zanesville, has added an unusual expansion of industry sparked by the building of a $40 million generating plant by the Ohio Power Co., a subsidiary of the American Gas & Electric system. This new plant is located below McConnelsville and adjacent to the Washington County line. This new facility combined with the Philco plant of the same company, located 10 miles below Zanesville, provides 2 of the largest power generating plants in the Nation. These 2 are within 30 miles of each other. This combined availability of power is the greatest single inducement to industrial expansion in this valley. The lower end of the valley toward Marietta has already attracted many new industries. such as the B. F. Goodrich Co. The Globe Iron Works has already started to build near the new powerplant. The imperative need now is to complete the Dillon project so as to improve flood control in the upper part of the valley (the part from McConnelsville to Zanesville to the Dillon Reservoir) so that the possibility of flood-free industrial sites can become a certainty, and thus be made available to industries for new plants, the location of which will mean increased employment to the people of the area and increased tax valuation to the cities, counties, the State, and Federal Government. The increased taxes that would accrue from these new plants would add greatly to the increased benefits that justify the expenditure of Federal funds on the Dillon project. This insuring of flood-free sites would, in a considerable measure add to the national plan for dispersion of industries as recommended by the Federal Gov ernment in their attempt to decentralize industrial locations and thus minimize the possibility of attack or destruction in time of war. It will be noted that we have added increased emphasis to the particular region from the Dillion Reservoir to McConnelsville because of the current files now available for inspection which will show where prominent industries have shown interest in this area and have been retarded in their plans only because of the possibility of floods. Normal flood stages at Zanesville and McConnelsville are 28 feet and 11 feet, respectively. The major flood of 1913 crested at 51.2 feet at Zanesville and 33.2 feet at McConnelsville. The already completed 14 reservoir system would reduce such a flood to 37.8 feet at Zanesville and 19 feet at McConnelsville. With the Dillon Reservoir also in operation, the crest of such a flood would be reduced to 33.8 feet at Zanesville and 14 feet at McConnelsville. Since the close of World War II Congress has appropriated $8,503,800 for this project. The appropriations by years are: During the past 2 years the project has been dormant due to Federal Government restrictions. During the time that no work has been done, the obvious and to be expected deterioration has occurred from natural causes. Photographs are available showing the unusual erosion that has taken place. To continue this project in the dormant stage can only add to the erosion and deterioration and thus increase the cost of rebuilding and refinishing the work and foundations already completed. Already completed are the Nashport Dike and the construction of a railroad right-of-way for a distance of 19 miles in the Licking Valley. The $2 million requested at this time will make possible the completion of the railroad relocation. The completion of this relocation would enable the Federal Government to release itself from the maintenance costs and other incidental expenses which must be borne by the Federal Government until the railroad phase of the project is completed and turned over to the railroad company who then will assume the regular maintenance expenses. With the railroad phase completed it would be possible to proceed with the building of the dam itself, along with the dikes planned at Pleasant Valley, Black Run, and Township Hall. The latter two are relatively small projects. STATEMENT BY WILLIAM M. CORRY If this appropriation is granted, work could start this summer to restore the damage caused by the elements during the past 2 years. Three bridges for which the steel has already been fabricated would be ready for erection as soon as the preliminary work was done. This would make it possible for the B. & O. Railroad to start operating late in 1955 over an elevated right-of-way which would place the tracks above the high water line of the flood-control reservoir. It is easily apparent that the number of jobs that would be available through this project (estimated between 1,500 and 2,000) would provide a much needed and certainly proper cushion for the declining employment that has struck this area in the same manner that it has affected other parts of the State and Nation. Today there is a great public cry for economy. To this philosophy we subscribe wholeheartedly. However, economy, in our way of thinking, is not the stopping of spending on projects already started-but economy, we believe, is the matter of spending wisely. It is impossible to understand how the best interests of the people can be served except by continuing this project and the gearing of every facility to its total early completion. To leave it dormant, poses an obvious and unsightly example of waste and expected deterioration. To complete it would provide an outstanding example of the completion of a project of flood control that would protect the lives and property of the citizens of the area, and at the same time add to the opportunities for economic independence for the people in the manner befitting and in keeping with a businesslike approach, and the fulfillment of promises and plans made and approved for the many past years. Senator DwORSHAK. I would like to place in the record a letter and attachments from Senator Paul H. Douglas concerning the need for survey funds for the Saline River Basin in Illinois. (The material referred to follows:) Senator WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND, Chairman, Subcommittee on Civil Functions, Senate Appropriations Committee, Washington, D. C. DEAR SENATOR KNOWLAND: I am enclosing correspondence of mine with Mr. Paul Endicott, secretary of the Saline County Soil Conservation District, Harrisburg, Ill., with respect to securing a survey of the Saline River Basin. Such a survey was authorized by Congress on March 9, 1948. I hope your committee will see fit to provide funds for such a survey as a part of the planning funds of the Corps of Engineers. Faithfully yours, PAUL H. DOUGLAS. Senator PAUL H. DOUGLAS, SALINE COUNTY SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: Thanks for your courteous reply to our letter of July 15, 1953, which requested your assistance in securing a survey of the basin of the Saline River and its tributaries as a basis for formulating a plan for soil and water conservation and flood control within the Saline Basin. Since writing you, we have noted that through an appropriation of the last Congress, such surveys have been started in three watersheds in Illinois, as well as others throughout the Nation. We have further noted indications in the press to the effect that the present Congress may give consideration to legislation providing additional appropriations for use in making similar surveys and to assist in the development of soiland water-conservation measures as a part of an overall flood-control program in additional stream basins in the Nation. Recently, there has developed considerable interest among the citizens of certain areas of the Saline River Basin in such a program. We of the Saline County Soil Conservation District are especially interested in this program of watershed development, and we would like to secure more information concerning the programs as now have been started under provisions of the last Congress. We would also like for you to inform us of the steps which we should take to properly present before the proper authorities our request for the inclusion of the Saline River Basin for consideration at such time in the future as additional watersheds may be brought into a conservation and flood-control program. Yours very truly, PAUL ENDICOTT, Secretary, Board of Directors. SALINE COUNTY SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT. Senator PAUL H. DOUGLAS, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: For your information I am enclosing a copy of a letter which our district board has sent to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, Washington, in regard to the drainage proposal for Saline River and tributaries. Yours very truly, PAUL ENDICOTT, Secretary, Board of Directors. JANUARY 13, 1953. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, The Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, 119 D Street NE., Washington 25, D. C. (Attention: Col. F. H. Falkner) GENTLEMEN: Since addressing our letter of December 16, 1953, to Col. F. H Falkner we have continued contacts with the leaders in the Saline River ares regarding the proposal for drainage of the Saline River and tributaries as contained in the "Public Notice-Saline River and Tributaries, Illinois," issued by your office November 2, 1953. In our letter of November 16, 1953, pursuant to paragraph 3 of your public notice aforementioned, we requested an oral hearing on the Saline River drainage proposal and suggested that such hearing be held in Harrisburg, Ill. We note in letter of November 24, 1953, over signature of Col. F. H. Falkner, that an oral hearing on the proposal would be held but that it would be held in Washington, D. C., inasmuch as the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors is without funds to hold the hearing in Harrisburg, Ill. Likewise our organization is without funds to send representation to Washington, D. C., to attend the oral hearing as scheduled there. In view of this situation the board of directors of the Saline County Soil Conservation District desires to express themselves to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbor in Washington, D. C., through the medium of this letter. The following statement is made in paragraph 2 of the public notice: "The Board has determined the amount of the contribution to be 15 percent of the construction cost, an amount presently estimated at $760,000, which would be in addition to lands, easements, rights-of-way, and other requirements of local cooperation specified in paragraph 1." We want to go on record as opposed to this division of the construction cost as proposed by the Board. We feel that this 15-percent figure is too large a proportion of the cost to be paid by the local people in addition to the other requirements specified in paragraph 1 of the public notice. You are requested to accept this as our response to the public notice of November 2, 1953, in lieu of our attendance in person at the oral hearing. Very truly yours, A. A. GHOLSON, Chairman, Board of Directors. Senator DwORSHAK. I also have a letter from the Pacific American Steamship Association in opposition to the appropriation of funds for the Sacramento Ship Channel, which will be placed in the record at this point. (The letter referred to follows:) Re Sacramento ship channel. Hon. WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND, PACIFIC AMERICAN STEAMSHIP ASSOCIATION, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. DEAR SENATOR KNOWLAND: While there is no provision in the President's budget for the Sacramento Ship Channel, the Army Civil Functions Subcommittee, of which you are chairman, was kind enough to receive into the record of recent hearings the views of this association in opposition to this project, which in our opinion is economically unwarranted and unnecessary at this time. In my testimony, I analyzed the ingredients of the engineers' cost-benefit ratio (1.15 to 1) as being distorted in terms of the annual volume of canned goods and general merchandise which they projected would move through Sacramento if the channel and port are built. I stated that our own research and analysis showed the benefit ratio to be 0.57 to 1, or one-half the engineers' estimate, based on the elimination of canned goods and general merchandise benefits alone. In my testimony, I purposely avoided any discussion of estimated benefits from bulk barley and rice movements as these are commodities which traditionally move on nonscheduled ships and I did not feel qualified to speak authoritatively about them. However, two significant bits of information have in the past week come to my attention which raise some doubts about the rice and barley figures put forth by the engineers. Both items appeared in the March 1, 1954, issue of the San Francisco Daily Commercial News-one speaks of the revival of rice imports from Italy to the Pacific coast, and the other reviews the pessimistic outlook for rice exports from California as seen by a prominent agricultural economist. Both are reflections upon our inability to compete in the world rice market at current prices. In the light of these current trends regarding waterborne rice tonnage to and from California, it seems only fitting that the bulk commodities potential set forth by the engineers in their report on this project should be reanalyzed before Congress appropriates any more funds to dredge a $35 million waterway for the movement of cargoes whose volume is so dependent upon sudden changes in world conditions. It would be greatly appreciated if this letter could be made a part of the record of the Army civil functions hearings on this matter. Very truly yours, RALPH B. DEWEY, Washington Representative. [San Francisco Daily Commercial News, March 1, 1954] PACIFIC COAST IMPORTS ITALIAN RED RICE RETURNS IN FIRST SMALL POSTWAR LOT (By M. T. Fortney, Trade Editor) San Francisco customs district: Parodi Erminio & Co., Inc., resumed their importation of rice from Italy, interrupted by World War II, with a 200-bag shipment discharged by APL'S President Polk. Company officials explained the import is a red rice, and a luxury food item. The commodity was loaded at Genoa. CALIFORNIA ECONOMIST SEES NO RICE EXPORTS NEXT YEAR Dr. George Mehrens, professor of agricultural economics of the University of California, has predicted the world price of rice would fall 40 cents below Federal parity next year. Mehrens said that would mean no exports of American-grown rice next year and production quotas for 1955-56. Mehrens said the long-run picture for American ricegrowers looks pretty good if Americans can meet the world price. Although Thailand, Burma, South Korea, and Indochina were expected to have 40 percent more production for export next year, Asia still is consuming more than it is producing, he said. Speaking of the past, Mehrens told the ricegrowers California rice production had tripled in the last 30 years although American consumptiton has not changed. Fifty percent of American production has been channeled overseas, he said. You can take over, Senator McClellan. The committee is now ready to hear testimony on Table Rock and you are interested in that. TABLE ROCK DAM Senator MCCLELLAN. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the time that has been set aside to give local interests an opportunity to appear here and be heard on this project. We have a number of people here. Some of them will just make brief statements. Others have prepared statements and others will probably cover the project in considerable detail. First, we have Senator Symington, our colleague here. This project is in his State, but I am claiming part of it at least in mine. It is down on the borderline and we certainly have a mutual interest in it. Senator Symington, we will be glad to hear from you. STATEMENT OF HON. STUART SYMINGTON, A UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF MISSOURI GENERAL STATEMENT Senator SYMINGTON. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the more that Senator McClellan claims the better we like it, sir. Senator DwORSIAK. I can say that he has displayed on many occasions a very profound interest in this project and I am sure he will carry on. Senator MCCLELLAN. Sometimes they say I have ability to make claims. |