Flood Control: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 4485 ... May 29-June 15, 1944 |
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... damage . There are numerous other projects completed or partially com- pleted which are safeguarding the operation of important industrial establishments and transportation facilities . Equally important , though less spectacular ...
... damage . There are numerous other projects completed or partially com- pleted which are safeguarding the operation of important industrial establishments and transportation facilities . Equally important , though less spectacular ...
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... damages in spring floods of 1944 Esti- River basin Esti- mated Estimated mated area damages , lives flooded , 1944 1944 Esti- Esti- mated River basin area lost , 1944 flooded , 1944 Estimated mated damages , 1944 lives lost , 1944 Acres ...
... damages in spring floods of 1944 Esti- River basin Esti- mated Estimated mated area damages , lives flooded , 1944 1944 Esti- Esti- mated River basin area lost , 1944 flooded , 1944 Estimated mated damages , 1944 lives lost , 1944 Acres ...
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... damage is over $ 570,000 . The plan of improvement recommended consists of the following : Construction of the West Hill Reservoir on the West River , which is a branch of the Blackstone River , at an estimated cost to the United States ...
... damage is over $ 570,000 . The plan of improvement recommended consists of the following : Construction of the West Hill Reservoir on the West River , which is a branch of the Blackstone River , at an estimated cost to the United States ...
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... damages of nearly $ 5,300,000 . It is estimated that average annual flood damage in the basin totals near $ 525,000 . The plan of improvement provides for 11 dam and reservoir projects for flood control and power development and other ...
... damages of nearly $ 5,300,000 . It is estimated that average annual flood damage in the basin totals near $ 525,000 . The plan of improvement provides for 11 dam and reservoir projects for flood control and power development and other ...
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... damages in the vicinity of Wilkesboro , which is one of the key points in this basin , occur on an average of once every 2 years . The greatest flood damages in this area are suffered by industrial and commercial plants in the vicinity ...
... damages in the vicinity of Wilkesboro , which is one of the key points in this basin , occur on an average of once every 2 years . The greatest flood damages in this area are suffered by industrial and commercial plants in the vicinity ...
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acre-feet acres agencies agricultural Arkansas Army engineers authorized BASHORE benefits Bureau of Reclamation Calif California Central Valley project Chairman CHEADLE Chief of Engineers CLARK of Missouri Colonel GOETHALS Colonel REBER Congress conservation construction Corps of Engineers County Creek crops Department farm feet flood control flood protection flood-control bill flood-control project Governor SHARPE harbor bill hearings high dam House Document improvement interests Interior irrigation district Kern River Kings River levees ment miles Mississippi Missouri River Basin multiple-purpose navigation objection operation percent Pick plan proposed purposes question recommendations Representative river and harbor ROBINS Sacramento River San Joaquin River Secretary Senator AIKEN Senator AUSTIN Senator BURTON Senator CLARK Senator CORDON Senator MCCLELLAN Senator MILLIKIN Senator OVERTON Senator ROBERTSON Shasta Dam statement storage streams subcommittee Table Mountain Dam tion tributaries Tulare Lake Tuolumne River United West Williamsville
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Page 719 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 719 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the. public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Page 719 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 33 - California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered 630, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 808 - Preference in the .sale of such power and energy shall be given to public bodies and cooperatives.
Page 249 - River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making, the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking...
Page 249 - Indian reservations, and other beneficial uses, and for the generation and sale of electric energy as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings and in order to permit the full utilization of the works constructed to accomplish the aforesaid purposes...
Page 251 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 42 - The Constitution of the United States provides that " the Congress shall have power "" to regulate commerce
Page 808 - Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission.