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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... head of the Eudora Floodway , shall have been constructed . SEC . 3. That the levees along the Mississippi River from the head of the Morganza floodway to the head of the Atchafalaya River and down the east bank of the Atchafalaya River ...
... head of the Eudora Floodway , shall have been constructed . SEC . 3. That the levees along the Mississippi River from the head of the Morganza floodway to the head of the Atchafalaya River and down the east bank of the Atchafalaya River ...
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... head of the 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 ...
... head of the 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 ...
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... head of the Eudora floodway north to the Arkansas River . The next is the construction of a floodway extending from the Mississippi River , north of Morganza , to the Atchafalaya River backwater , with a control structure at its head ...
... head of the Eudora floodway north to the Arkansas River . The next is the construction of a floodway extending from the Mississippi River , north of Morganza , to the Atchafalaya River backwater , with a control structure at its head ...
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... head of the Eudora to the Arkansas River , we have an additional acreage of 119,385 acres , making a total for the Eudora floodway , proper , and its northern extension of 822,037 acres , which is a much less quantity than that ...
... head of the Eudora to the Arkansas River , we have an additional acreage of 119,385 acres , making a total for the Eudora floodway , proper , and its northern extension of 822,037 acres , which is a much less quantity than that ...
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... Head of the Passes to Cape Girardeau , Mo. , in accordance with the plan set forth in a report of the Chief of Engineers printed in House Document No. 90 , Seventieth Congress , first session , with certain modifications that might be ...
... Head of the Passes to Cape Girardeau , Mo. , in accordance with the plan set forth in a report of the Chief of Engineers printed in House Document No. 90 , Seventieth Congress , first session , with certain modifications that might be ...
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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