Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... board of engineers of Louisiana , not by the Government , and I think that it gives the actual cost and that in each levee set - back that portion is measured . Mr. Jacobs , taking the 74,000 acres involved , do you have the portion in ...
... board of engineers of Louisiana , not by the Government , and I think that it gives the actual cost and that in each levee set - back that portion is measured . Mr. Jacobs , taking the 74,000 acres involved , do you have the portion in ...
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... LEVEE DISTRICT Mr. SCHNEIDER . Gentlemen , these various shaded areas on these maps give you a general idea about ... levee board . I was contact man with the property owners and had to thrash out with them any differences which arose ...
... LEVEE DISTRICT Mr. SCHNEIDER . Gentlemen , these various shaded areas on these maps give you a general idea about ... levee board . I was contact man with the property owners and had to thrash out with them any differences which arose ...
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... levee board from the State of Louisiana ? Mr. SCHNEIDER . I was at that time president of the board . Mr. RICH . When you went to these people to acquire the land for these levees , set - back levees , were you acting for the Federal ...
... levee board from the State of Louisiana ? Mr. SCHNEIDER . I was at that time president of the board . Mr. RICH . When you went to these people to acquire the land for these levees , set - back levees , were you acting for the Federal ...
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... BOARD OF ENGINEERS OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA Mr. JACOBS . Mr. Chairman and members of the committee , supple- menting my remarks of the other day , I would like to call the com- mittee's attention to a levee that was built in 1931 and ...
... BOARD OF ENGINEERS OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA Mr. JACOBS . Mr. Chairman and members of the committee , supple- menting my remarks of the other day , I would like to call the com- mittee's attention to a levee that was built in 1931 and ...
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... levee on the high ground it would very much reduce the levee cost to the Government . The district engineer requested the levee board to furnish rights- of - way on the back lane , and that held the work up for some 6 or 8 months . We ...
... levee on the high ground it would very much reduce the levee cost to the Government . The district engineer requested the levee board to furnish rights- of - way on the back lane , and that held the work up for some 6 or 8 months . We ...
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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...