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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... construction of a detention reservoir for the reduction of floods , and the acquisition at the cost of the United States of all lands and flowage necessary to the construction of said reservoir except flowage of highways : Provided ...
... construction of a detention reservoir for the reduction of floods , and the acquisition at the cost of the United States of all lands and flowage necessary to the construction of said reservoir except flowage of highways : Provided ...
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... construction of the Eudora Foodway ; except that , until the Eudora Floodway is in operative condition , there shall be left in this back levee north of the head of the Eudora Floodway openings which shall be sufficient , in the ...
... construction of the Eudora Foodway ; except that , until the Eudora Floodway is in operative condition , there shall be left in this back levee north of the head of the Eudora Floodway openings which shall be sufficient , in the ...
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... construction , at the expense of the Govern- ment , of a system of levees in substantial accordance with plan reported by the engineers . This provision in a different form was incorporated by the Committee on Commerce in H. R. 8455 in ...
... construction , at the expense of the Govern- ment , of a system of levees in substantial accordance with plan reported by the engineers . This provision in a different form was incorporated by the Committee on Commerce in H. R. 8455 in ...
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... construction . Cham- bers of commerce meet , mass meetings of citizens are held , speeches are made , editorials are published in the newspapers , and a volume of influence is created which for the time being is irresistible . But ...
... construction . Cham- bers of commerce meet , mass meetings of citizens are held , speeches are made , editorials are published in the newspapers , and a volume of influence is created which for the time being is irresistible . But ...
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... construction of a floodway extending from the Mississippi River , north of Morganza , to the Atchafalaya River backwater , with a control structure at its head ; the construction of an additional outlet , to the west of Berwick , from ...
... construction of a floodway extending from the Mississippi River , north of Morganza , to the Atchafalaya River backwater , with a control structure at its head ; the construction of an additional outlet , to the west of Berwick , from ...
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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