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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... bank revetment , and other public works and expended within the limits of the jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission as extended by this act in accordance with the plans , specifications , and recom- mendations of the ...
... bank revetment , and other public works and expended within the limits of the jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission as extended by this act in accordance with the plans , specifications , and recom- mendations of the ...
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... bank and channel stabiliza- tion and other improvements in the interests of navigation , and to locate and relocate levees , construct , maintain , and operate spillways , flood ways , and reservoirs , and use any other means necessary ...
... bank and channel stabiliza- tion and other improvements in the interests of navigation , and to locate and relocate levees , construct , maintain , and operate spillways , flood ways , and reservoirs , and use any other means necessary ...
12 psl.
... bank and channel stabilization and other improvements in the interests of navigation , and to locate and relocate levees ; construct , main- tain , and operate spillways , flood ways , and reservoirs ; to construct revetments , and use ...
... bank and channel stabilization and other improvements in the interests of navigation , and to locate and relocate levees ; construct , main- tain , and operate spillways , flood ways , and reservoirs ; to construct revetments , and use ...
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... bank will be about one to seven on both faces of the dam . This dam will eliminate any provision for an overflow , which is the most dangerous feature in an earth dam , and , instead , an underflow will be pro- vided . This will consist ...
... bank will be about one to seven on both faces of the dam . This dam will eliminate any provision for an overflow , which is the most dangerous feature in an earth dam , and , instead , an underflow will be pro- vided . This will consist ...
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... bank , in order to reach the same destination , must flow more than one thousand miles rapidly through a crooked and tortuous channel , expending and wasting their latent dynamic energy largely in the destruction of its banks , and so ...
... bank , in order to reach the same destination , must flow more than one thousand miles rapidly through a crooked and tortuous channel , expending and wasting their latent dynamic energy largely in the destruction of its banks , and so ...
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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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1 psl. - If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
6 psl. - Two of the members in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the Board.
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