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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... east bank of the Atchafalaya River to intersection with the west protection levee of said Morganza floodway shall be raised and enlarged to 1928 grade and section . SEC . 4. That neither of the projects for the flood control of the ...
... east bank of the Atchafalaya River to intersection with the west protection levee of said Morganza floodway shall be raised and enlarged to 1928 grade and section . SEC . 4. That neither of the projects for the flood control of the ...
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... east side of the Atchafalaya River shall be constructed to the 1914 grade and 1928 section , and , after the Mor- ganza Floodway has been completed , shall be raised to the 1928 grade as provided in section 3 of this Act . Thereafter ...
... east side of the Atchafalaya River shall be constructed to the 1914 grade and 1928 section , and , after the Mor- ganza Floodway has been completed , shall be raised to the 1928 grade as provided in section 3 of this Act . Thereafter ...
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... eastern side . The original levee line on the west bank for some distance below Cairo produced such a constric- tion of the flood channel as to imperil the safety of that city . Under the present project the main levee has been set back ...
... eastern side . The original levee line on the west bank for some distance below Cairo produced such a constric- tion of the flood channel as to imperil the safety of that city . Under the present project the main levee has been set back ...
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... east side about midway of this middle section , the floodway is necessarily located through the low lands on the ... east of the Macon Ridge against extreme floods , as well as all lowlands east of the river in the large area known as ...
... east side about midway of this middle section , the floodway is necessarily located through the low lands on the ... east of the Macon Ridge against extreme floods , as well as all lowlands east of the river in the large area known as ...
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... east side of Macon Ridge , with a controlled inlet in the vicinity of Eudora , and a back protection levee extending from this floodway north to the Arkansas River . " ( b ) A revision of the floodway plans in the Atchafalaya Basin to ...
... east side of Macon Ridge , with a controlled inlet in the vicinity of Eudora , and a back protection levee extending from this floodway north to the Arkansas River . " ( b ) A revision of the floodway plans in the Atchafalaya Basin to ...
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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