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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... side shall be constructed to the 1914 grade and the 1928 section . The fuse - plug levees at the head of the Atchafalaya Basin on the east side of the Atchafalaya River shall be constructed to the 1914 grade and 1928 section , and ...
... side shall be constructed to the 1914 grade and the 1928 section . The fuse - plug levees at the head of the Atchafalaya Basin on the east side of the Atchafalaya River shall be constructed to the 1914 grade and 1928 section , and ...
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... side . The original levee line on the west bank for some distance below Cairo produced such a constric- tion of the flood channel as to imperil the safety of that city . Under the present project the main levee has been set back to ...
... side . The original levee line on the west bank for some distance below Cairo produced such a constric- tion of the flood channel as to imperil the safety of that city . Under the present project the main levee has been set back to ...
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... side about midway of this middle section , the floodway is necessarily located through the low lands on the west side . These low lands are divided into two basins by a low ridge , known as the Macon Ridge , generally paralleling the ...
... side about midway of this middle section , the floodway is necessarily located through the low lands on the west side . These low lands are divided into two basins by a low ridge , known as the Macon Ridge , generally paralleling the ...
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... side , and along the south side of the Red River to high ground on the other . 13. The combined flood discharge capacity of the leveed channels of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers , with levees of safe and reasonable height ...
... side , and along the south side of the Red River to high ground on the other . 13. The combined flood discharge capacity of the leveed channels of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers , with levees of safe and reasonable height ...
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... side of Macon Ridge , with a controlled inlet in the vicinity of Eudora , and a back protection levee extending from this floodway north to the Arkansas River . " ( b ) A revision of the floodway plans in the Atchafalaya Basin to ...
... side of Macon Ridge , with a controlled inlet in the vicinity of Eudora , and a back protection levee extending from this floodway north to the Arkansas River . " ( b ) A revision of the floodway plans in the Atchafalaya Basin to ...
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