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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... matters and to the satisfaction of the Chief of Engineers and for the reimbursement of such local levee districts , boards , commissions , or other agencies , for the purchase price thereof at prices pre- viously agreed upon between the ...
... matters and to the satisfaction of the Chief of Engineers and for the reimbursement of such local levee districts , boards , commissions , or other agencies , for the purchase price thereof at prices pre- viously agreed upon between the ...
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... matter , to keep this situation blocked , so that next year or the year following we will have a repetition of what occurred in 1927 . Now , I could talk here all day . There are others who will present various phases of these problems ...
... matter , to keep this situation blocked , so that next year or the year following we will have a repetition of what occurred in 1927 . Now , I could talk here all day . There are others who will present various phases of these problems ...
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... matter of record , we had bet- ter put them in . Senator OVERTON . Very well . ( N. B. The letter from the Chief of ... matters , but I think that will be sufficient . Senator SHEPPARD . Very well . Senator OVERTON . Now , while hearings ...
... matter of record , we had bet- ter put them in . Senator OVERTON . Very well . ( N. B. The letter from the Chief of ... matters , but I think that will be sufficient . Senator SHEPPARD . Very well . Senator OVERTON . Now , while hearings ...
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... matters pending . 1 Senator SHEPPARD . We shall take that up later . Senator OVERTON . The first section of S. 3531 adopts the Mark- ham plan , with certain modifications . That is to say , it adopts what may be classified as the ...
... matters pending . 1 Senator SHEPPARD . We shall take that up later . Senator OVERTON . The first section of S. 3531 adopts the Mark- ham plan , with certain modifications . That is to say , it adopts what may be classified as the ...
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... matters in respect to section 5. There are representative citizens from Arkan- sas who will probably wish to be heard in respect to this section . That , Mr. Chairman , is the only departure that I have made in this bill from the ...
... matters in respect to section 5. There are representative citizens from Arkan- sas who will probably wish to be heard in respect to this section . That , Mr. Chairman , is the only departure that I have made in this bill from the ...
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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