waters. There were almost 400,000 acres of land flooded in Louisiana This points out vividly the need for immediate action in the completion authorized flood control works for the Red River Basin.

Millwood Reservoir, together with the other authorized reservoirs Little River system, will control the flood discharge from over 4,000 square and provides almost one-third of the total effective flood control storage the reservoirs in the authorized program for Red River. With Millwood voir in operation in 1957 and 1958, the acres flooded and the resulting damage would have been greatly reduced.

We, in Louisiana, have been waiting since 1946 for the authorized protection to which we are entitled. The floods since this time have been to the economy of the people of Louisiana. We feel that it is past tim Millwood Reservoir, as well as the other reservoirs in the Little River s which are such an important and necessary feature of the flood control be constructed. The past flood history of Red River has proved, without a the justification for the expenditure of the money necessary for the constr of the remaining authorized reservoirs in the Red River Basin.

Mr. WILLIAMS. The Red River is a comparatively new river the few years I have been living, I have seen the Red River tal plantations of men who were well fixed and in good shape and w up by making these men paupers because of trying to stay of river with their land continually getting smaller and smaller.

The land that we work on the Red River is close to the river. Τ are the lands we are dependent upon for a living, and to make c When the land gets back from the river it is of a secondary nɛ and will not produce profitably.

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I ask you to do what you can to help us with the bank stabilizɛ on the Red River so the good land we have will stay with us. take several generations to get back where we can use this land. Thank you for your indulgence.

Mr. MATTHIAS. Congressman Ikard intended to be here and delayed by weather. Mr. Stallings, his assistant, will speak in behalf.

Mr. CANNON. If he will submit a statement it will be inserte this point.

(The statement referred to follows:)

STATEMENT BY CONGRESSMAN FRANK IKARD IN BEHALF OF THE REQUEST FO ABATEMENT STUDY OF THE RED RIVER POLLUTION

Mr. Chairman, the Red River runs along the entire north border of my gressional district and I have long been aware of the great need for the co of the natural pollution of this great river. There is probably no end to benefits that can be derived from the pollution control of the tributarie the Red River. Measures have been taken to control the artificial pollu of these streams but this is futile unless natural pollution can be contro I would appreciate your serious consideration of the request for $150,000 w would implement the methods of deferring these salt and alkali beds.

I appreciate you affording the opportunity for Mr. Fred Parkey, man of Wichita County Water Improvement Districts 1 and 2 and Mr. Oral Jo president, Wichita County Water Improvement District 1, to appear bel your committee.

RED RIVER POLLUTION ABATEMENT

STATEMENT OF MR. FRED PARKEY

Mr. JOHN L. STALLINGS. I would like to introduce Mr. Oral Jo and Mr. Fred Parkey, general manager, Wichita County Water I provement Districts 1 and 2.

Mr. PARKEY. Mr. Chairman and members of this committee, it a great pleasure for me to be here and discuss with you things importance to our area.

I am Fred Parkey, general manager of Wichita County Water Improvement Districts 1 and 2 located in Wichita Falls, Tex.

In our particular area it is where the springs are polluting the Red River. This is where it starts.

On the stream that flows through the city of Wichita Falls and into one of our large reservoirs there are 350 tons of salt which flow from springs each day of the year.

We have springs in this particular locality which yield 100 tons of salt every day.

We have a city of over 120,000 people. We are very limited on water supply.

Our rainfall ranges from 12 to 28 inches per year. Our annual evaporation would be somewhere around 65 inches per year. It is a necessity that we have some way to correct the natural pollution of the salt water that is on our watersheds.

We have a sufficient amount of water to supply our needs if it were good water.

We strongly urge you to make the appropriation to the Corps of Army Engineers for this year so that we might control the natural pollution of the salt on the Red River and so that one day we might have good water.

(The following brief was submitted for the record :)

WICHITA FALLS, TEX., April 4, 1960. To Subcommittee on Appropriations for Civil Works of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives.

Mr. CHAIRMAN: We would like to thank you for your cooperation in securing appropriation for $75,000 for the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, to initiate an investigation of the pollution problem in the Arkansas Red River Basins in cooperation with the Federal and State agencies. The main object of this study was to find the source of pollution, to determine the type and volume, and to devise a practical means of controlling it. This area has sufficient quantities of water to supply its needs if the water was of good quality. Wichita County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 and Wichita County Water Improvement District No. 2 have constructed two lakes at a tremendous cost to the people of this area. The drainage area of these lakes are from the red soils of the Permain red beds. These soils are high in chemical contents of salt and alkali. In the Blaine formation is found natural springs which flow continuously into Lake Kemp; as a result the water is unfit for human consumption. Its average total solids have ranged over the years approximately 2,000 parts per million. These lakes impound approximately 600,000 acre-feet of water from which it is possible to irrigate 40,000 acres of land.

There is approximately 350 tons of salt that flows from natural springs into these lakes each day from natural pollution. Our districts have spent approximately $6 million on these lakes and other improvements for domestic water supply and yet find the water unfit for human consumption.

To protect the future of the city of Wichita Falls (a city of 120,000 people), cur irrigated valley, and to assure continual growth to this area, we urge the propriation of an additional $150,000 for the Corps of Army Engineers to help clean up the natural pollution of our watersheds and to make the permanent Correction of this pollution a reality.

Yours truly,

ORAL JONES,

President, Wichita County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.

APRIL 4, 1960.

To Subcommittee on Appropriations for Civil Works of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives.

MR. CHAIRMAN: The Red River Authority of Texas is a political subdivision of the State of Texas comprising nearly all of the counties within the State

of Texas situated in the Texas watershed of Red River and its Texas taries. The authority was created by the 56th Legislature of the State of The population of the authority will exceed one-half million people.

The authority has control of approximately 1,200,000 acre-feet of which is runoff from the Texas tributaries to the Red River.

The primary purpose of the authority is the preparation of a maste of development of the Red River Basin. In the preparation of this pl the development of the water resources of the authority, it is necess consider the great pollution problem involved both from artificial as v natural sources and the control thereof.

Throughout the authority it has been conservatively estimated that r pollution contributes 25 percent to the pollution of waters within the & ity, while in the local area an excess of 50 percent of the water pollu attributable to artificial sources.

In connection with artificial or manmade pollution, the authority 1 the exercise of its police powers, adopted rules and regulations calcula control the same, carrying adequate penal provisions for the enforcement of by the various regulatory agencies of the State.

With the proper control of manmade pollution without the control of r pollution, the water would still be unfit for human consumption an stymie our growth.

We urge the appropriation of $150,000 to continue this most important We are confident that the Corps of Army Engineers, if given proper fund find the solution for the control of natural pollution.

Assuredly, with the cooperation of your committee on appropriations, t cellent work theretofore done by the Corps of Army Engineers can b tinued.

Yours very truly,

T. C. FOLEY, President, Red River Valley Authority of Te

MILLWOOD RESERVOIR

STATEMENT OF MR. CHARLES M. CONWAY

Mr. MATTHIAS. Our next witnesses are Mr. Charles Conway Mr. Robert Lowe, attorneys, representing the Southwest Arka Water District of Texarkana, Ark.

Mr. Conway has the statement.

Mr. CONWAY. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, my name is Ch Conway. I live in Texarkana, Ark. I am here in behalf of the interests in southwest Arkansas, which covers five counties in southwest corner of the State.

We are the local interests which have organized under a statu the State of Arkansas for the sole purpose of furnishing the C of Engineers the assurances of the local interests which are requ in order to obtain this water supply.

We have, heretofore, filed with the Tulsa District Office the as ances that they have requested of us, and our group stands read enter into the contract at such time as the Corps of Engineers sires.

I have a written statement which I would like to file with the c mittee's permission setting forth in detail our support of the apl priation of a half million dollars for Millwood Reservoir.

Mr. CANNON. It will be inserted at this point. (The statement referred to follows:)

STATEMENT OF CHARLES M. CONWAY, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, THE SOUTHV ARKANSAS WATER DISTRICT, IN SUPPORT OF APPROPRIATION FOR MILLWOOD! ERVOIR, ARK.

I am Charles Conway of Texarkana, Ark., and I am appearing on behal the Southwest Arkansas Water District of which I am executive secretary

The Southwest Arkansas Water District is a public corporation chartered under the law of the State of Arkansas embracing five counties in the southwest portion of our State. The water district has as its purpose the acquisition and distribution of the water to be stored in the proposed Millwood Reservoir which is to be situated at mile 16 on Little River in the State of Arkansas.

As you gentlemen know the Millwood Reservoir was authorized by Congress in the year 1946 as a part of the comprehensive plan for flood control on Red River below Denison Dam. In 1955 Millwood Reservoir was reauthorized, said authority providing for the inclusion of the storage of 150,000 acre-feet for water supply for municipal, agricultural, and industrial purposes.

The Congress has heretofore appropriated $546,000 for the completion of preconstruction planning. As a result thereof, the Tulsa District Office of the Corp of Engineers of the U.S. Army has prepared the construction plans for this reservoir. We are advised that the Corp of Engineers is in a position to effectively utilize the sum of $500,000 in fiscal year 1961 for the acquisition of the damsite, construction of access roads, and to initiate construction.

As you gentlemen know, Millwood Reservoir is but one reservoir in the comprehensive plan for the control of floodwaters on the Red River. So long as Millwood Reservoir remains unconstructed, the entire lower Red River remains jeopardized. In the past 4 years and in years gone by, crippling floods have been experienced along the main stem of the Red River in portions of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The completion of Millwood Reservoir will harness the last major tributary to the Red River, and will go a long way toward eliminating the destructive flooding conditions that have heretofore been experienced. By way of paradox, it should also be noted that within the last decade suffocating droughts have been experienced along the entire Red River Valley emphasizing the immediate and future necessity of conserving our vital surface water resources. As recently as November 1959, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare made a study of Millwood Reservoir. This study pointed out the fact that the water of the Little River is of "excellent quality" and that the quality of water is not expected to deteriorate in the future. This same study confirmed the opinion of the local interests that the reasonable future water demands of the area justify the water resources now planned for construction in Millwood Reservoir.

The people of southwest Arkansas are in wholehearted support of the construction of Millwood Reservoir and stand ready to assume obligations of the local interests in providing for this water supply. As evidence of the interest of the people in southwest Arkansas, in 1957, they sponsored legislation in the Legislature of the State of Arkansas, providing for the organization of public corporations on a regional basis for the sole purpose of assuming the obligations of the local interests in the construction of multipurpose reservoirs by the Corps of Engineers. "The Regional Water Distribution District Act," Act No. 114 of the acts of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas for 1957 is the result of the efforts of the people of southwest Arkansas to be in a position to work with the Corps of Engineers in the acquisition and distribution of the water supply. The Southwest Arkansas Water District was organized under the Regional Water Distribution Act in 1957, the first such district within the State of Arkansas, and has since then offered assistance to the Corps of Engineers and its agents in obtaining the information necessary for the construction of the reservoir. The Southwest Arkansas Water District has given the Corps of Engineers the proper assurances required by the act authorizing Millwood Reservoir that the district will, when called upon, perform the reasonable requirements of local interests.

Therefore, we respectfully urge that this committee recommend to the House of Representatives the appropriation of the sum of $500,000 for fiscal year 1961 to be used for the acquisition of the damsite, the construction of access roads, and to initiate construction of Millwood Reservoir.

BROKEN BOW RESERVOIR

STATEMENT OF MR. HAROLD F. NORRIS

Mr. MATTHIAS. Our next witness is Mr. Harold F. Norris, the executive State vice president, for the Red River Valley Association from Broken Bow, Okla.

Mr. NORRIS. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am Harold Norris, Broken Bow, Okla. I have written statements sup

porting the request for $500,000 to initiate construction on the Broke Bow Reservoir which is part of the overall Red River Flood Contr Act.

We in our section very badly need flood protection which would given by the construction of this reservoir.

We have actively been working on flood protection since 1921. has been a slow, hard pull. We have reached the point that the Eng neers are able to use this money and we urgently request that you ti to see your way clear to include the $500,000 for the appropriation t initiate this project and also $150,000 of planning money for the Pin Creek Reservoir which also affects our area.

We have met the requirements of the Engineers and we are ver anxious to proceed and beg you to bear with us.

Mr. CANNON. Thank you.

(Discussion held off the record.)

(Mr. Chandler's statement follows:)

STATEMENT OF HERBERT CHANDLER, MORT WELCH AND HAROLD NORRIS REPRESEN ING BROKEN BOW LIONS CLUB, CITY OF BROKEN BOW, OKLA., AND BROKEN BO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

We urgently request that $500,000 be appropriated by this session of Congres to initiate construction on the Broken Bow Reservoir located on Mountain For River, McCurtain County, Okla.

All the engineering planning for this reservoir has been provided for by th Congress and the U.S. Corps of Engineers are now ready to proceed with th initial part of construction of the Broken Bow Reservoir.

Mountain Fork River empties into Little River in McCurtain County, Okla. Little River empties in Red River just above Fulton, Ark. All of the levees on Red River below Fulton, Ark., have been engineered to handle floodwaters of the Red River with the understanding that on the lower part of Little River the Millwood Reservoir and six upstream reservoirs, namely, Broken Bow, Pine Creek, and Lukfata in Oklahoma, and Gillhan, De Queen, and Dierks in southwest Arkansas would be built to control the runoff floodwaters of southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas.

Benefits from this system of reservoirs will be realized from southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas through the entire State of Louisiana to the Gulf of Mexico.

The people of McCurtain County, Okla., have been actively seeking protection from floods on the Little River and its tributaries since 1921. McCurtain County has suffered losses of many millions of dollars year after year from devastating floods. Many times its residents would get a new start and attempt to defeat. the floodwaters of Mountain Fork, Glover, and Little River only to be repeatedly wiped out by new floods. The final result is that our people had to seek livelihood somewhere else so that today our population is one-half of what it was 25 years ago.

We people in the area of the Broken Bow Reservoir have met every demand of the laws controlling the construction of this reservoir. We are prepared and determined to meet all requirements for the completion of the construction of this reservoir.

Next to the very urgent need for flood protection from southeast Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico is the urgent need for conservation of the largest source of superior quality water undeveloped in the entire United States. The runoff waters that feed these streams, Mountain Fork, Glover, and Little River, to wit. are free from any mineral content of any kind. This result in the very highest quality water that is to be found anywhere.

When this fine quality water is stored in the Broken Bow Reservoir it will by sought by many industries. We can furnish an inexhaustible supply of fine labor, both men and women. We feel that the industrial development that will take place immediately after the Broken Bow Reservoir is completed will far exceed the fondest dreams of this committee. This industrial development will mean more jobs, more business, more people, more people gainfully employed and, if you please, a better and broader tax base for the return of the investment which the Government will make in order that that return may be reinvested in