Comprehensive Flood-control Plans: Hearings Before the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on Report of the Chief of Engineers, April 6, 1937, House Flood Control Committee Document No. 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, and Subsequent Reports of the Chief of Engineers, and Amendments to the Flood Control Acts of June 15, 1936, June 22, 1936, and August 28, 1937. March 30 to April 19, 1938 |
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acre-feet acre-foot acres additional Allegheny Allegheny River amount approximately Arkansas River Army engineers authorized backwater benefits BENNINGTON bill Cairo capacity CARLSON CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers CLASON Colonel COVELL Colonel MOSES Colonel REYBOLD Colonel SCOTT Colonel STURDEVANT Commission committee compact Congress Connecticut River conservation contribution County Creek cubic feet DEMUTH Denison Dam dikes district easements estimated cost Eudora Federal Government FERGUSON Flood Control Act flood protection flood walls flowage funds glad Governor AIKEN hearings interests Kansas lands and damages levee Lieutenant Colonel WHEELER located Major SMITH Mayor MCCLELLAN McCLURE ment Merrimack River Mississippi River Missouri Morganza navigation Ohio River Oklahoma percent Pittsburgh present question recommended record Red River reservoirs rights-of-way River Basin SCHLEY Senator OVERTON SHUTLER Smoky Hill River square miles statement storage stream survey tion total cost tributaries TYLER Valley VOORHIS Washita ZIMMERMAN
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Page 347 - It is hereby recognized that destructive floods upon the rivers of the United States, upsetting orderly processes and causing loss of life and property, including the erosion of lands, and impairing and obstructing navigation, highways, railroads, and other channels of commerce between the States, constitute a menace to national welfare...
Page 339 - Congress hereinbefore referred to ; (2) To hold and save the United States free from damages due to the construction works ; (3) To maintain and operate all the works herein contemplated after completion in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War...
Page 817 - An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for other purposes...
Page 120 - August 28, 1937, authorized the construction of levees, flood walls, and drainage structures for the protection of cities and towns in the Ohio...
Page 349 - The port authority shall have such additional powers and duties as may hereafter be delegated to or imposed upon it from time to time by the action of the legislature of either State concurred in by the legislature of the other.
Page 566 - STATEMENT OF HON. JAMES W. MOTT, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF OREGON NATIONAL FOREST PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT AND FOREST-FIRE COOPERATION Mr.
Page 333 - War that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the project...
Page 152 - AFTER RECESS (The committee reassembled, pursuant to the taking of recess, at 2 pm) Mr.
Page 340 - States, setting forth in detail the operations and transactions conducted by it pursuant to this agreement and any legislation thereunder.
Page 349 - ... and by the Congress of the United States. The commission shall make, or cause to be made, such studies as it may deem necessary, in cooperation with the corps of engineers and other federal agencies, for the development of a comprehensive plan for flood control and for utilization of the water resources of the Connecticut River Valley.