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20. EMERGENCY FLOOD-CONTROL WORK UNDER AUTHORITY OF
THE FLOOD CONTROL ACT APPROVED AUGUST 18, 1941
The Flood Control Act approved August 18, 1941, authorized the
allotment from flood-control appropriations of not to exceed
$1,000,000 for any one fiscal year to be expended in rescue work,
or in the repair or maintenance of any flood-control work threat-
ened or destroyed by flood. Pursuant to this act, the amount of
$400,560 was allotted in fiscal year 1943 for emergency repair and
rescue work in the St. Louis district, the additional amount of
$2,000 was allotted for this work in fiscal year 1944, and $130,000
in fiscal year 1945.
The operations undertaken during the fiscal year, pursuant to
this authorization, consisted of reinforcing levees to prevent
breaches, repairing breached and eroded levees, and conducting
rescue and evacuation activities during the March to June 1945
high water. The costs during the year were $67,875.67, and the
expenditures were $64,876.51. The total costs to June 30, 1945,
were $378,524.19, and expenditures were $375,525.03.
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21. EMERGENCY FLOOD-CONTROL WORK UNDER AUTHORITY OF
PUBLIC LAWS NOS. 138 AND 318, SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS
AND PUBLIC LAW NO. 75, SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS
Because of the heavy demands for emergency-repair work to
flood-control structures damaged or destroyed by the disastrous
floods which occurred in the springs of 1943, 1944, and 1945, Con-
gress, in the act approved July 12, 1943, Public No. 138, Seventy-
eighth Congress, in the act approved May 29, 1944, Public No. 318,
Seventy-eighth Congress and in the act approved June 5, 1945,
Public No. 75, Seventy-ninth Congress, authorized the amounts
of $10,000,000, $12,000,000 and $12,000,000 respectively, to be ap-
propriated as emergency funds to be expended under the direction
of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of En-
gineers for the repair, restoration, and strengthening of levees and
other flood-control works which had been threatened or destroyed
by the recent floods. Pursuant to the act of July 12, 1943, the
amount of $2,175,000 was allotted to the St. Louis district during
fiscal year 1944 for emergency flood-control work. Additional
amounts of $4,646,500 and $530,000 were allotted in fiscal year
1945 pursuant to Public Law Nos. 318 and 75, respectively, for
emergency repair work in this district.
Emergency flood-control work along the Mississippi, Illinois, and
Kaskaskia Rivers was accomplished during fiscal year 1945 at a
cost of $2,226,507.70. The expenditures were $2,134,157.62. The
total costs to June 30, 1945, were $4,276,738.92, and expenditures
were $4,159,193.33.
The balance unexpended at the end of the fiscal year, amounting
to $3,192,306.67, will be applied to accounts payable, $117,545.59,
and to emergency repair of levees damaged by the April-May
1944 and the March to June 1945 floods of the Mississippi, Illinois,
and Kaskaskia Rivers.
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22. EMERGENCY PROTECTION FOR ILLINOIS APPROACH CHAIN
OF ROCKS BRIDGE (SECTION 12, FLOOD CONTROL ACT AP-
PROVED DECEMBER 22, 1944)
The Flood Control Act approved December 22, 1944, authorized
the allotment of $500,000 as an emergency fund to be expended
under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision
of the Chief of Engineers for the construction of emergency bank
protection works to prevent flood damage to highways, bridge
approaches, and public works. On January 31, 1945, the sum of
$25,000 was allotted the St. Louis district for the construction of
necessary bank protection and abatis dike on the Illinois side,
at, and immediately above the Chain of Rocks Bridge.
Operation and results during fiscal year.-Construction work was initiated on this project on March 12, 1945, and suspended due to high river stage on March 21, 1945. During this period 2,151 cubic yards of earth were removed from the bank and 338 linear feet of piling were driven by contract at a cost of $3,353.76. The expenditures were $3,260.81.
Condition at end of fiscal year. The project is about 13 percent complete. The total costs to June 30, 1945, were $3,353.76 from regular funds for new work, and the expenditures were $3,260.81. Proposed operations.-The balance unexpended at the end of the fiscal year will be applied as follows:
Accounts payable, June 30, 1945
New work: By contract, constructing bank protection, July 1, 1945, to Aug. 30, 1945
It is expected that, with the proposed expenditures, the project will be completed.
23. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS, SURVEYS, AND
CONTINGENCIES FOR FLOOD CONTROL
The cost of work done during the year amounted to $100,629.56 and the expenditures were $104,244.96. The balance unexpended, amounting to $144,175.35, plus an anticipated allotment, will be applied to accounts payable, $6,990.24, and as needed during fiscal year 1946 to payment of expenses incurred under this heading. The additional sum of $39,000 can be profitably expended during fiscal year 1947 for work under this heading.
Cost and financial summary
Cost of new work to June 30, 1945
Cost of maintenance to June 30, 1945
Total cost of permanent work to June 30, 1945 Minus accounts payable June 30, 1945
Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending
June 30, 1947 for maintenance 1
1 Exclusive of available funds.
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