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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 75
Page 5
... fact that the lands within the area to be protected under section 5 have already contributed from time to time in the form of levee taxes approximately $ 4,000,000 ; and as a result of that contribution those lands have received no ...
... fact that the lands within the area to be protected under section 5 have already contributed from time to time in the form of levee taxes approximately $ 4,000,000 ; and as a result of that contribution those lands have received no ...
Page 7
... fact that those lands have been designated by law for use as spillways . No man wants to build a home in a spillway . No man with good judgment would take his family into a spillway and establish his home there . He would try to remain ...
... fact that those lands have been designated by law for use as spillways . No man wants to build a home in a spillway . No man with good judgment would take his family into a spillway and establish his home there . He would try to remain ...
Page 13
... fact that the obligations of local contribution had been fully met by the ex- penditure on the part of local levee boards and through State agencies of the sum of $ 292,000,000 toward flood control in the lower Mississippi Valley ...
... fact that the obligations of local contribution had been fully met by the ex- penditure on the part of local levee boards and through State agencies of the sum of $ 292,000,000 toward flood control in the lower Mississippi Valley ...
Page 43
... fact that its purpose was to endeavor to find a yardstick or background upon which Con- gress could find some means of evaluating the cost of this procedure . We did not get up this report by just sitting in a room and con- sulting with ...
... fact that its purpose was to endeavor to find a yardstick or background upon which Con- gress could find some means of evaluating the cost of this procedure . We did not get up this report by just sitting in a room and con- sulting with ...
Page 44
... fact that , quite anomalously , the more expenditure the Federal Government makes in the lower Mississippi Valley the more obligations it picks up . It seems to me as though Congress ought to know what the limit of that is . It was for ...
... fact that , quite anomalously , the more expenditure the Federal Government makes in the lower Mississippi Valley the more obligations it picks up . It seems to me as though Congress ought to know what the limit of that is . It was for ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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