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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... problems , and I am grateful to the subcom- mittee for hearing me . I have another committee , the Committee on Foreign Relations , that is now in session with a very important matter before it . I must go there , but I intend to come ...
... problems , and I am grateful to the subcom- mittee for hearing me . I have another committee , the Committee on Foreign Relations , that is now in session with a very important matter before it . I must go there , but I intend to come ...
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... problem solved without diversion of water from the Mississippi River proper over the soil and territory of any State . But I have been advised by the Chief of Engineers , by Army engineers , by State engi- neers , that it is impractical ...
... problem solved without diversion of water from the Mississippi River proper over the soil and territory of any State . But I have been advised by the Chief of Engineers , by Army engineers , by State engi- neers , that it is impractical ...
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... problem ; and I understand from them that reservoirs alone will not solve the problem , and that the combination of both levees and reservoirs will not dispose of the necessity of having floodways . I also understand from them that it ...
... problem ; and I understand from them that reservoirs alone will not solve the problem , and that the combination of both levees and reservoirs will not dispose of the necessity of having floodways . I also understand from them that it ...
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... problem and in the execution of works by and through the supervision of the Federal Gvernment that will save us from flood disasters in the fu- ture . We entertain the reasonable hope and expectation that the levees will hold and that ...
... problem and in the execution of works by and through the supervision of the Federal Gvernment that will save us from flood disasters in the fu- ture . We entertain the reasonable hope and expectation that the levees will hold and that ...
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... problems of drainage . The adopted project contemplates that this drainage shall be cared for by local interests . Well thought - out plans for utilizing the levee borrow pits to facilitate land drainage have gone far toward solving the ...
... problems of drainage . The adopted project contemplates that this drainage shall be cared for by local interests . Well thought - out plans for utilizing the levee borrow pits to facilitate land drainage have gone far toward solving 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