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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... improvement district taxes that it has been absolutely impossible for landowners to borrow money in any amount on their property . I have seen lands in southeastern Arkansas that a few years ago , in spite of occasional overflows , had ...
... improvement district taxes that it has been absolutely impossible for landowners to borrow money in any amount on their property . I have seen lands in southeastern Arkansas that a few years ago , in spite of occasional overflows , had ...
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... improvement of the discharge capacity of the Atchafalaya River and of its outlets ; a 6 - year program for the improvement and regulation of the Mississippi River , in- cluding the continued maintenance of the navigation channel pro ...
... improvement of the discharge capacity of the Atchafalaya River and of its outlets ; a 6 - year program for the improvement and regulation of the Mississippi River , in- cluding the continued maintenance of the navigation channel pro ...
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... improved and unimproved , and of railroads crossing the two floodways are about the same . The proposed height , width , and depth of the two proposed floodways are about the same . Now , passing from section 2 , the Boeuf floodway ...
... improved and unimproved , and of railroads crossing the two floodways are about the same . The proposed height , width , and depth of the two proposed floodways are about the same . Now , passing from section 2 , the Boeuf floodway ...
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... improvement . I think that therefore not only is the rule suggested by section 12 for the payment of flowage rights a just rule and a fair rule and a constitutional rule , but it is also a very practical rule . I do not think , Mr ...
... improvement . I think that therefore not only is the rule suggested by section 12 for the payment of flowage rights a just rule and a fair rule and a constitutional rule , but it is also a very practical rule . I do not think , Mr ...
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... improvement to afford vessels access to the ocean port of New Orleans . The average width of the lowlands of the valley is 50 miles . Before levees for their protection were undertaken , some 20,000,000 acres were overflowed by river ...
... improvement to afford vessels access to the ocean port of New Orleans . The average width of the lowlands of the valley is 50 miles . Before levees for their protection were undertaken , some 20,000,000 acres were overflowed by river ...
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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