Flood Control: Hearings Before the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on the Control of the Destructive Flood Waters of the United States, Parts 6-7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - Flood control |
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20 per cent acres amount Arkansas City Army engineers Atchafalaya Basin Atchafalaya River backwater banks Bayou Boeuf Boeuf River bonds Bonnet Carre Cairo canal Cape Girardeau Chairman Flood Control channel Chief of Engineers Colonel PILLSBURY Colonel POTTER commerce Congress construction contribute cost crevasse crop cubic feet Cypress Creek damage drainage estimate farm Federal Government Flood Control Committee flood waters flow FRANK FREAR fuze-plug Gulf Gulf of Mexico House of Representatives interest Jadwin plan January KEMPER KOPP land levee district LORIMER Louisiana Madrid main river Mississippi River Commission Mississippi Valley Missouri Morgan City navigation Old River Orleans overflow present problem proposed protection question raised Red Cross Red River REID reservoirs SEARS second-feet spillway square miles STEVENS stream taxes Tensas Basin territory tion tributaries United Washington WHITTINGTON WILSON Yazoo
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Page 4430 - ... to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Page 4549 - To regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
Page 4149 - But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb; The dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and ; The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Page 4335 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 4430 - That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States is hereby prohibited ; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead...
Page 4444 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 4149 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 4143 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
Page 4787 - It has no connection with any established system of improvements; is exclusively within the limits of a State, starting at a point on the Ohio River and running out 60 miles to an interior town, and even as far as the State is interested conferring partial instead of general advantages.
Page 4501 - The committee will take a recess until 2 o'clock. (Accordingly at 12 o'clock m. the committee took a recess until 2 o'clock pm) AFTER RECESS. The committee reassembled at the conclusion of the recess, at 2 o'clock pm Mr.