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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... necessary because of the construction of the authorized reser- voirs , and meet all damages because of such highway alterations , and have agreed also to furnish without cost to the United States all lands and easements neces- sary to ...
... necessary because of the construction of the authorized reser- voirs , and meet all damages because of such highway alterations , and have agreed also to furnish without cost to the United States all lands and easements neces- sary to ...
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... necessary or advisable to change the location of any such flood - control work in order to provide the protection contemplated by this section , such change may be approved and authorized , SEC . 10. After the Eudora Floodway shall have ...
... necessary or advisable to change the location of any such flood - control work in order to provide the protection contemplated by this section , such change may be approved and authorized , SEC . 10. After the Eudora Floodway shall have ...
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... necessary . I pass along now to a brief mention of another controverted feature in the bill : The Flood Control Act of 1928 requires in ex- press language that the Government shall protect the flowage rights within the floodways ...
... necessary . I pass along now to a brief mention of another controverted feature in the bill : The Flood Control Act of 1928 requires in ex- press language that the Government shall protect the flowage rights within the floodways ...
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... necessary to reproduce the report in these hearings . Senator SHEPPARD . I think that , as a matter of record , we had bet- ter put them in . Senator OVERTON . Very well . ( N. B. The letter from the Chief of Engineers is printed before ...
... necessary to reproduce the report in these hearings . Senator SHEPPARD . I think that , as a matter of record , we had bet- ter put them in . Senator OVERTON . Very well . ( N. B. The letter from the Chief of Engineers is printed before ...
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... necessary — with the levees constructed as they are →→ to divert as much as possibly a half a million feet down a floodway immediately south of the Arkansas River , and during a superflood as much as a million feet . Now , as between ...
... necessary — with the levees constructed as they are →→ to divert as much as possibly a half a million feet down a floodway immediately south of the Arkansas River , and during a superflood as much as a million feet . Now , as between ...
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