Flood Control in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3531, a Bill to Amend the Act Entitled "An Act for the Control of Floods on the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries and for Other Purposes", Approved May 15, 1928, January 27, 28, 29 and 30, 1936 |
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... Boeuf Floodway , authorized by the provisions adopted in the Flood Control Act of May 15 , 1928 , shall be abandoned as soon as the Eudora Floodway , provided for in Flood Control Committee Document Num- bered 1 , Seventy - fourth ...
... Boeuf Floodway , authorized by the provisions adopted in the Flood Control Act of May 15 , 1928 , shall be abandoned as soon as the Eudora Floodway , provided for in Flood Control Committee Document Num- bered 1 , Seventy - fourth ...
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... Boeuf and Tensas Basins shall be constructed to the 1914 grade and the 1928 section . The fuse- plug levees at the head of the Atchafalaya Basin on the west side shall be constructed to the 1914 grade and the 1928 section . The fuse ...
... Boeuf and Tensas Basins shall be constructed to the 1914 grade and the 1928 section . The fuse- plug levees at the head of the Atchafalaya Basin on the west side shall be constructed to the 1914 grade and the 1928 section . The fuse ...
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... Boeuf floodway , and is intended to carry , according to my understanding , substantially an equal amount as would be diverted through the Boeuf floodway . Proposals have been made for the control of floods on the tribu- taries , and ...
... Boeuf floodway , and is intended to carry , according to my understanding , substantially an equal amount as would be diverted through the Boeuf floodway . Proposals have been made for the control of floods on the tribu- taries , and ...
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... Boeuf Basin floodway , and it was so great that nothing was ever done about it . You are never going to arrive at a time , in my judg- ment , when everyone is going to say , or almost everyone is going to say : All right , here is my ...
... Boeuf Basin floodway , and it was so great that nothing was ever done about it . You are never going to arrive at a time , in my judg- ment , when everyone is going to say , or almost everyone is going to say : All right , here is my ...
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... Boeuf floodway , and substitution therefor of the Eudora floodway , along with a back - protection levee extend- ing from the head of the Eudora floodway north to the Arkansas River . The next is the construction of a floodway extending ...
... Boeuf floodway , and substitution therefor of the Eudora floodway , along with a back - protection levee extend- ing from the head of the Eudora floodway north to the Arkansas River . The next is the construction of a floodway extending ...
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26 reservoirs acres adopted project Arkansas and White Arkansas City Arkansas River assessed value Atchafalaya Basin Atchafalaya River backwater area bill Boeuf Basin Boeuf floodway Chairman Chief of Engineers compensation Congress construction cost crevasse cut-offs Cypress damage discharge drainage easements East Carroll East Carroll Parish estimated Eudora floodway Ferguson Flood Control Act Flood Control Committee flood heights flood waters flow flowage rights fuseplug levee gage Government guide levees hearings highway JACOBS KEMPER Laconia Circle lands levee boards levee district levee grade Louisiana lower Mississippi main river MARKHAM miles Mississippi River Commission Mississippi Valley Morganza floodway outlet overflow Parish percent present property owners proposed question railroad RANSDELL recommended Red River reduce Representative MILLER Representative WHITTINGTON River levee second-feet Senator BILBO Senator OVERTON Senator SHEPPARD spillway stage statement SUMMERLIN superflood Tensas Tensas Parish tion tributaries tupelo United Vicksburg White River Yazoo River