Flood Control: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, First Session, Relative to Flood Control of the Mississippi River. January 23 to February 24, 1928. Printed for Use of the Committee on CommerceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - 693 psl. |
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... damage claims resulting from the construction of the project , and to maintain all flood - control works after their completion , except controlling and regulating spillway structures including special relief levees . SEC . 3. The Chief ...
... damage claims resulting from the construction of the project , and to maintain all flood - control works after their completion , except controlling and regulating spillway structures including special relief levees . SEC . 3. The Chief ...
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... damage whatever in the valley had said plans for the construction of said spillway been carried out before the recent catastrophe , perfect drain- age would have been afforded the valley during the last eight years ; and Whereas the ...
... damage whatever in the valley had said plans for the construction of said spillway been carried out before the recent catastrophe , perfect drain- age would have been afforded the valley during the last eight years ; and Whereas the ...
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... damage to life and property than ever before recorded , reaching in nineteen hundred and twelve the greatest of record below Cairo , ' as stated in the report of the Mississippi River Commission for that year , and it is known that the ...
... damage to life and property than ever before recorded , reaching in nineteen hundred and twelve the greatest of record below Cairo , ' as stated in the report of the Mississippi River Commission for that year , and it is known that the ...
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... damage to property and other losses , exclusive of levees , due to the flood of nineteen hundred and twelve ' was $ 42,914,623 ; and " Whereas Colonel C. McD . Townsend , president of the Mississippi River Commission , in a letter to Mr ...
... damage to property and other losses , exclusive of levees , due to the flood of nineteen hundred and twelve ' was $ 42,914,623 ; and " Whereas Colonel C. McD . Townsend , president of the Mississippi River Commission , in a letter to Mr ...
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... damage an earthquake that would make the flight of locks at Panama utterly useless . " The subsidiary or cultivated dams are great sand bars , made by the induced action of the current of the river itself ; these may easily be made to ...
... damage an earthquake that would make the flight of locks at Panama utterly useless . " The subsidiary or cultivated dams are great sand bars , made by the induced action of the current of the river itself ; these may easily be made to ...
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acres amount Arkansas City Army engineers Association Atchafalaya Basin authority bank Bonnet Carre build Cairo Cape Girardeau carry CHAIRMAN Chamber of Commerce channel Chief of Engineers civil engineers civilian engineers Colonel POTTER committee Congress construction contribution cost crevasse Cypress Creek Damage difference drainage dredging DUFOUR entire estimate feet flood control flood waters flow going Gulf Jadwin plan Jadwin proposal January 31 land levee district Louisiana lower main river matter miles Mississippi River Commission Mississippi Valley Missouri navigation opinion Orleans overflow President problem protection question railroad raise recommended Red River reservoirs RIKER River Commission plan second-feet Secretary DAVIS Secretary HOOVER Senator FLETCHER Senator HARRY Senator HAWES Senator RANSDELL Senator SACKETT Senator SIMMONS Senator TYSON Senator WILLIS spillway statement STEVENS TAYLOR Tensas thing tion tributaries United States Senate Washington WEST
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510 psl. - It shall be the duty of said commission to take into consideration and mature such plan or plans and estimates as will correct, permanently locate, and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi River ; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof; prevent destructive floods; promote and facilitate commerce, trade, and the postal service...
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