Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings Before the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 7349, 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, as Amended, April 29, 30 and May 1, 1935 |
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... drained , and with everything in the world to make that plantation one of the most desirable properties you could conceive of . It would cost the Government $ 450,000 to bring this existing levee along near the bank of the Mississippi ...
... drained , and with everything in the world to make that plantation one of the most desirable properties you could conceive of . It would cost the Government $ 450,000 to bring this existing levee along near the bank of the Mississippi ...
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... drains to the west , into another river ; and , as a result of building this new levee , our drainage is cut off , and since 1928 the larger portion of this land has been covered with water and we have not even been able to use it for ...
... drains to the west , into another river ; and , as a result of building this new levee , our drainage is cut off , and since 1928 the larger portion of this land has been covered with water and we have not even been able to use it for ...
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... drainage , being cut off by the new levee , of course all of the rainfall that falls is kept right on that land . Now , we paid an annual tax for the last 30 years ranging around $ 2,100 or $ 2,200 ; but the tax commission , recognizing ...
... drainage , being cut off by the new levee , of course all of the rainfall that falls is kept right on that land . Now , we paid an annual tax for the last 30 years ranging around $ 2,100 or $ 2,200 ; but the tax commission , recognizing ...
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... drainage was shut off by the building of the set - back ? Dr. WOLFE . The new levee cut off our drainage . Our land slopes this way [ indicating ] , and goes to another river . Now Mr. WILSON . If you understood your statement correctly ...
... drainage was shut off by the building of the set - back ? Dr. WOLFE . The new levee cut off our drainage . Our land slopes this way [ indicating ] , and goes to another river . Now Mr. WILSON . If you understood your statement correctly ...
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... drainage from that area , that previous to building the set - back , the water flowed into another river , and did not go back into the Mississippi River ? Dr. WOLFE . No ; the land is drained to the west . The river is on the east . Mr ...
... drainage from that area , that previous to building the set - back , the water flowed into another river , and did not go back into the Mississippi River ? Dr. WOLFE . No ; the land is drained to the west . The river is on the east . Mr ...
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100 percent acre ally paid acres Act of 1928-Continued amount obligation paid Amount taken Assessed Amounts not paid Arkansas Ascension Parish Atchafalaya Basin Levee Atchafalaya levee district Basin Levee District Bayou Boeuf Black River built under Flood CHAIRMAN Charles Parish construction material_ Contract construction of United cost of project district for construction Flood Control Act Highway Levee Highway Highway Total amount Iberville Parish JACOBS James Parish Lafourche Levee District Lake Borgne length levee board Levee Highway Levee levee highway project Levee Highway Total levees built material_ Contract payments ments actu miles miscellaneous expenses miscellaneous expenses_ Gravel Mississippi River old levee paid by Atchafalaya paid to date plantation Plaquemine Parish Pointe Coupee Parish Pontchartrain Levee District Port Allen Price per ments right-of-way acquired Right-of-way and miscellaneous river edge set-back levees supervision Tabulation of right-of-way taken Assessed value toe of old Total cost United States levees value of land WHITTINGTON
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Page 1 - USCS § 702d]; (c) provide without cost to the United States, all rights-of-way for levee foundations and levees on the main stem of the Mississippi River between Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and the Head of Passes.
Page 1 - Except when authorized by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, no money appropriated under authority of this Act shall be expended on the construction of any item of the project until the States or levee districts have given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will (a) maintain all flood-control works after their completion, except controlling and regulating spillway structures, including special relief levees; maintenance includes normally...
Page 1 - Numbered 391, approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 534), Seventieth Congress, entitled "An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for other purposes...
Page 1 - War that they will (a) maintain all flood-control works after their completion, except controlling and regulating spillway structures, including special relief levees; maintenance includes normally such matters as cutting grass, removal of weeds, local drainage, and minor repairs of main river levees; (b) agree to accept land turned over to them under the provisions of section 4...
Page 1 - SEC. 3. Except when authorized by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, no money appropriated under authority of this Act shall be expended on the construction of any item of the project until the States or levee districts have given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will (a) maintain all flood-control works after their completion, except controlling and regulating spillway structures, including special relief levees ; maintenance includes...
Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Untied States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978".
Page 16 - States or legally constituted and empowered local agencies for the cost of flowage rights over all lands, including compensation for damages to improvements thereon at the time of the taking.
Page 37 - ENGINEER OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee: The levee boards and the board of State engineers of Louisiana are very much impressed with the statements made here by General Brown and General Ferguson on the development of the problems of flood control and the execution of the adopted plan, insofar as it affects Louisiana, at the recent hearings...
Page 12 - ... is worthy of your consideration. I am not asking for an increase in the appropriation. It is just a matter of getting the most for the money that you are going to spend. I thank you, gentlemen. Mr. WOODRUM. Thank you, Mr. McClellan. THURSDAY MAY 6, 1937. RELIEF APPROPRIATION Mr. WOODRUM. Mr. Lasser, if you desire to make a statement, we will be very glad to year you at this time. STATEMENT OF DAVID IASSER, REPRESENTING THE WORKERS' ALLIANCE OF AMERICA Mr. LASSER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of...
Page 3 - ... before the setback is made. Here is Mr. Wolfe's property, [indicating]. They take the levee around, and the levee comes over here [indicating]. Practically the part of his property that he is cultivating, and the larger portion of it, is between the new levee and the river, and is used for carrying the flood waters of the main channel of the Mississippi River. Mr. RICH. I appreciate the fact that a man whose property is inside a levee should have some consideration. There is only one thing I...