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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... backwater area , contemplates a use of the lands within that area as a reservoir in time of high floods on the Mississippi and some of its tributaries . If , as has been suggested , the local interests be required to pay one - third of ...
... backwater area , contemplates a use of the lands within that area as a reservoir in time of high floods on the Mississippi and some of its tributaries . If , as has been suggested , the local interests be required to pay one - third of ...
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... backwater , with a control structure at its head ; the construction of an additional outlet , to the west of Berwick , from the Atcha- falaya River ; the improvement of the discharge capacity of the Atchafalaya River and of its outlets ...
... backwater , with a control structure at its head ; the construction of an additional outlet , to the west of Berwick , from the Atcha- falaya River ; the improvement of the discharge capacity of the Atchafalaya River and of its outlets ...
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... backwater area of the Red River , and the lowlands of the Ouachita River , a tributary of the Red . The plan , if con- summated , would protect the area east of the Macon Ridge against extreme floods , as well as all lowlands east of ...
... backwater area of the Red River , and the lowlands of the Ouachita River , a tributary of the Red . The plan , if con- summated , would protect the area east of the Macon Ridge against extreme floods , as well as all lowlands east of ...
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... backwater overflows incident to the discharge through the leveed channel of the Atchafalaya into the swamp area in the lower part of the basin . These overflows tend to increase yearly , because of silt deposits in this swamp area ...
... backwater overflows incident to the discharge through the leveed channel of the Atchafalaya into the swamp area in the lower part of the basin . These overflows tend to increase yearly , because of silt deposits in this swamp area ...
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... backwater area would in any event be overflowed . Furthermore , this backwater area will be sub- stantially benefited by a second floodway proposed in the southern section . 24. The intake of the Eudora Floodway is 120 miles by the ...
... backwater area would in any event be overflowed . Furthermore , this backwater area will be sub- stantially benefited by a second floodway proposed in the southern section . 24. The intake of the Eudora Floodway is 120 miles by the ...
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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