Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... number of miles of existing levees then on the river . In 1914 the Corps of Engineers provided a grade and section for the levees along the river which , in their judgment , would be sufficient to withstand the amount of flood water ...
... number of miles of existing levees then on the river . In 1914 the Corps of Engineers provided a grade and section for the levees along the river which , in their judgment , would be sufficient to withstand the amount of flood water ...
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... amount of money . In accordance with the statement made by the engineers , the amount of that expense was a little in excess of 50 percent on the part of the local districts . When the 1928 grade and section was placed in operation ...
... amount of money . In accordance with the statement made by the engineers , the amount of that expense was a little in excess of 50 percent on the part of the local districts . When the 1928 grade and section was placed in operation ...
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... amount of money for the cut - off levee and the cost of bringing this existing levee up to the 1928 grade and section , and according to the estimate it would be slightly under the amount of money that was actually saved . In other ...
... amount of money for the cut - off levee and the cost of bringing this existing levee up to the 1928 grade and section , and according to the estimate it would be slightly under the amount of money that was actually saved . In other ...
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... amount given us by the Chief of Engineers , were required in that district alone to expend and obligate themselves ... amount , substantially as I have given it , that those two levee boards were required to obligate themselves for to ...
... amount given us by the Chief of Engineers , were required in that district alone to expend and obligate themselves ... amount , substantially as I have given it , that those two levee boards were required to obligate themselves for to ...
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... number of landowners or gentle- men representing landowners who desire to make statements to the committee in reference to ... amount of obligations , which includes outstanding certificates of indebtedness , with the amounts that have ...
... number of landowners or gentle- men representing landowners who desire to make statements to the committee in reference to ... amount of obligations , which includes outstanding certificates of indebtedness , with the amounts that have ...
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100 percent acre ally paid 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 Bayou Goula 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 James Parish Lafourche Levee District Lake Borgne Landry length levee board Levee Highway Levee levee highway project Levee Highway Total levees built material_ Contract payments ments actu miles miscellaneous expenses 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 Tabulation of right-of-way taken Assessed value toe of old Total amount obligation Total cost United States levees value of land WHITTINGTON
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Page 204 - District is composed of the parishes of East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, and Concordia.
Page 33 - 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 202 - ... accountability, it would transfer the responsibility for the administration of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act from its Board of Directors appointed by the President for that purpose to the General Accounting Office in Washington. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will meet at 3 o'clock this afternoon. (Whereupon the committee recessed until 3 pm of the same day.) AFTER RECESS (The committee reassembled at 3 pm, pursuant to recess.) The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please be in order. I believe...
Page 10 - ... 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...