There was no opposition to the proposed improvements expressed to the Board.

Senator MALONE. Do you have any further explanation or statement to make, Colonel Moore?

Colonel MOORE. No, sir.

Senator MALONE. I want the record to show that Senator Wilson of Iowa has said that on account of another committee meeting, he is unable to be here but will file a statement, and that Senator Hickenlooper is also tied up this morning in an Atomic Energy Committee meeting and is unable to be here but will file a statement for the record. (The statements referred to follow :)

Hon. CHAPMAN REVERCOMB,

Chairman, Senate Public Works Committee,

Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C.

UNITED STATES SENATE,

May 29, 1948.

MY DEAR SENATOR: I am very much interested in the Davenport and Fort Madison request for a small harbor at each of these places. I am personally familiar with conditions and know that the authorization will be of great commercial benefit. I cannot too strongly urge the passage of an authorization. With best personal regards, I am Sincerely yours,

GEORGE A. WILSON.

UNITED STATES SENATE,

June 2, 1948.

Hon. GEORGE A. WILSON,

United States Senate, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SENATOR WILSON: This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of May 29 expressing your interest in the projects for Davenport Harbor and Fort Madison Harbor, Iowa. As you know, Senator Malone, chairman of the subcommittee, conducted hearings on the two projects on May 27 and the subcommittee will consider the items when the river and harbor flood-control bill comes over from the House.

I am handing your letter to the clerk of the committee, Mr. Orren L. Jones, with the request that it be included in the record of printed hearings on the two projects.

With all good wishes, I am
Sincerely yours,

CHAPMAN REVERCOMB, Chairman, Committee on Public Works.

Senator MALONE. The committee will now consider Davenport Harbor, Iowa.

Davenport, Iowa, is located on the right bank of the Mississippi River in the pool created by lock and dam No. 15, about 370 miles from Minneapolis and 200 miles upstream from St. Louis.

I will submit a short digest of the project for the record. (The digest is as follows:)

DAVENPORT HARBOR, IOWA

Location.-Davenport, Iowa, is located on the right bank of the Mississippi River in the pool created by lock and dam No. 15, about 370 miles from Minneapolis and 200 miles upstream from St. Louis.

Report authorized by.-Resolution of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, adopted March 21, 1945.

Existing project.-Provides for a 9-foot channel from the Missouri River to Minneapolis, which has been completed. Davenport's water front is improved by a sea wall which extends for about 2 miles above lock and dam No. 15. A paved levee below the dam is used for the parking of cars and a ferryboat dock between Rock Island, Ill.

Proposed improvements.-Provides for a rock-fill dike or breakwater to enclose a mooring area 1,150 feet long, having a maximum width of 200 feet and a depth of 5 feet, for a small-boat harbor in the pool of lock and dam No. 15, adjacent to the sea wall, which will accommodate 200 local and transient crafts. Estimated cost to the United States for construction.-$91,200.

Local cooperation.-Provided that local interests agree to furnish free of cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way and spoil areas necessary for the new work and for subsequent maintenance, when and as required, and hold and save the United States free from damages due to the construction and maintenance, and provide necessary mooring facilities and utilities, including a public landing with suitable supply facilities and access road, these harbor facilities to be open to all on equal terms; to be operated without profit and at reasonable rental charges. The estimated cost to local interests is $61,350. Annual cost of maintenance to the United States.―$100.

Benefits.-Davenport has a population of about 75,000, the population of the Quad Cities is 156,000, and serves as a trading center for a rich agricultural region. Traffic along this reach of the river consists of barge commerce, commercial fishing, recreational craft, and excursion boats. About 1,600 recreational boats with drafts of 12 to 5 feet passed through the lock at Davenport in 1941. At the present time the Lindsay Park Boat Club operates a small boathouse about 12 miles from the lock and dam facilities for the accommodation of yachts, small recreational craft, and sailboats. The cruisers are anchored out in the river without protection from southwest storms and from river traffic. The mooring of boats in the open river, as necessary under present conditions, results in substantial damage to craft, endangers life, requires expense and inconvenience in attending the boats to guard against damage, and discourages the expansion of recreational boating. The proposed facilities will benefit all small-boat owners, not only at Davenport but to a wide area both up and down the Mississippi River, and to the boat owners living in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and other inland towns who moor their craft in the river at Davenport. The annual benefits are estimated at $10,500 and the benefit to cost ratio is 1.71 to 1.0. Senator MALONE. Congressman Martin, we will hear you now on Davenport.

Representative MARTIN. Mr. Chairman, Davenport, Iowa, is a city of about 75,000 population, situated on the Mississippi River about 370 miles from Minneapolis and 200 miles from St. Louis, and located on the pool created by lock and dam No. 15. The city serves as a trading center for a rich agricultural region. Traffic along this reach of the river consists of barge commerce, commercial fishing, and recreational craft and excursion boats. About 1,600 recreational boats with drafts of 12 to 5 feet passed through the lock at Davenport in 1941. Davenport's water front is improved by a sea wall which extends for approximately 111⁄2 miles long above lock and dam No. 15. A paved levee below the dam is used for the parking of cars and ferryboat dock between Rock Island, Ill., and Davenport. At the present time, the Lindsay Boat Club operates a small boathouse about 12 miles from this lock and dam with facilities for the accommodation of yachts, small recreational craft, and sailboats. The cruisers are anchored out in the river without protection from southwest storms and from river traffic, and considerable damage has been caused by such storms.

The Army engineers have shown the need and advisability at this time of the construction of a harbor with a depth of 5 feet for small craft in the pool created by dam No. 15 at Davenport, Iowa, and I am here in the interest of this harbor. This proposed harbor will furnish protection for craft using the river, and other navigation interests.

The local people desire the provision of a breakwater-protected harbor for recreational boats adjacent to the sea wall in the vicinity of the Lindsay Park Boat Club. The mooring of boats in the open river, as necessary under present conditions, results in substantial damage to craft, endangers life, requires expense and inconvenience in attending the boats to guard against damage, and discourages the expansion of recreational boating.

The Corps of Engineers has made a study of the needs of this locality and after careful consideration has recommended the improvements at Davenport to provide for a small-boat harbor in pool No. 15 adjacent to the sea wall at the Lindsay Park Boat Club designed to accommodate 200 local and transient craft. The improvements provide for rock-fill dike or breakwater to enclose a mooring area 1,150 feet long, having a maximum width of 200 feet.

The proposed facilities will benefit all small-boat owners, not only at Davenport but to a wide area both up and down the Mississippi River and to the boat owners living in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and other inland towns who moor their craft in the river at Davenport. The benefits to be derived from this harbor development far exceed the cost, and I sincerely hope that your committee will include the necessary authorization for this project in the bill now before you. Thank you.

Senator MALONE. Colonel Moore, are you familiar with this project and would you like to give us an explanation of it at this time? Colonel MOORE. Yes, sir.

Senator MALONE. You may proceed.

Colonel MOORE. Mr. Chairman, the report on Mississippi River at Davenport, Iowa, as contained in House Document No. 642, Eightieth Congress, is in response to a resolution adopted March 21, 1945, by the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives. Davenport, Iowa, occupies the right bank of the Mississippi River for several miles in the vicinity of mile 482 above the mouth of the Ohio River. Rock Island, Ill., is on the opposite bank of the river, and immediately above Rock Island are the cities of Moline and East Moline, Ill. These four communities are known as the Quad Cities. Bettendorf, Iowa, adjoins the upper limits of Davenport.

The Federal navigation project for this section of the Mississippi River provides principally for securing a channel 9 feet deep between the mouth of the Missouri River and Minneapolis, Minn., by construction of a system of locks and dams supplemented by dredging. Dam No. 15 of the project is located at mile 482.9. It abuts the Iowa shore near the center of the water front at Davenport and is at the head of pool No. 16 formed by dam No. 16 located 25.7 miles downstream. Pool No. 15 on the upstream side of dam No. 15 is maintained at elevation of 561 feet above mean sea level. From dam No. 15 a Federally constructed sea wall extends upstream along the Davenport water front for about 2 miles, confining the pool.

In addition to commodities destined to or originating at the Quad Cities, the river carries a large amount of through barge commerce past these cities. Commercial fishing in a 29-mile section of river above and below Devenport yields an estimated 150 tons of catch annually.

Other traffic includes local and transient recreational craft, excursion boats, and recreational boats for hire. About 1,600 recreational boats. with drafts of 1.5 to 5 feet passed through the locks at Davenport in 1941. Although the war reduced recreational boating temporarily, present trends indicate that this activity will increase in the near fu

ture.

The population of the Quad Cities in 1940 was 155,781 including 66,039 at Davenport which serves as the trading center for a rich agricultural region. The Quad Cities area is the most concentrated industrial center on the Missippi River between Minneapolis, Minn., and St. Louis, Mo. A very large variety of products are manufactured in this area.

The nearest facilities for serving small boats upstream from Daven-. port are at Clinton, Iowa, about 35.8 miles distant.

Local interests desire provision of a breakwater-protected harbor for recreational boats adjacent to the sea wall in the vicinity of the Lindsay Park Boat Club.

They point out that mooring of boats in the open river, as necessary under present conditions, results in substantial damage to the craft, endangers life, requires expense and inconvenience in attendig the boats to guard agaist damage, and discourages the expansion of recreational boating. The local board of park commissioners advocates provision of a small-boat basin at the site and believes that facilities should not be included at this location for loading and unloading commercial tows.

The district engineer presents a plan for a small-boat harbor in pool No. 15 adjacent to the sea wall at the Lindsay Park Boat Club designed to accommodate 200 local and transient craft. It provides for a rock-fill dike or breakwater with gravel crown to enclose a mooring area 1,150 feet long having maximum width of 200 feet. Existing depths exceed the proposed project depth for maintenance which is 5 feet below flat pool elevation. The district and division engineers recommend that the United States participate in construction of a small-boat harbor at Davenport, Iowa, subject to certain conditions of local cooperation.

The Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors concurs generally in the views of the reporting officers. A harbor for small craft to serve both local and transient boats is needed at Davenport, Iowa, in the pool created by dam No. 15. In the opinion of the Board the expenditures required for its construction and maintenance are warranted in the interest of safety and convenience of established and prospective navigation. Although water depths at the proposed harbor site generally exceed 15 feet, the Board holds that the authorization should specify a minimum project depth of 5 feet below flat pool so that maintenance dredging can be accomplished if it should ever become necessary.

Accordingly, the Board recommends modification of the existing project for the Mississippi River between the Missouri River and Minneapolis, Minn., to provide for a harbor, with depth of 5 feet, forsmall craft in the pool created by dam No. 15 at Davenport, Iowa, in general accordance with the plans of the district engineer.

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In accordance with law a copy of the proposed report of the Chief of Engineers was submitted to the Governor of Iowa for comment. The Governor of Iowa in a letter dated March 6, 1948, to the Acting Chief of Engineers stated:

This letter is to confirm my telegram with reference to the proposed smallboat harbor at Davenport, Iowa. I have reviewed the proposed report of the Chief of Engineers in connection with this project, and am pleased to advise you that the report has the approval of this office.

Very truly yours,

ROBERT D. BLUE, Governor of Iowa.

In accordance with section 4 of Executive Order No. 9384 the report was submitted to the Bureau of the Budget for information as to the relationship of the proposed report to the program of the President. The Bureau of the Budget advised that there would be no objection to the submission of the report to Congress.

The Chief of Engineers after due consideration of these reports concurs in the views and recommendations of the Board.

The improvement is recommended provided local interests agree to (a) furnish, without cost to the United States, all necessary lands, easements, and rights of way for construction and maintenance of the improvements; (b) hold and save the United States free from damage due to construction and maintenance of the works; and (c) provide and maintain an access road, a parking area, and necessary mooring facilities and utilities, including a public landing with suitable servicing and supply facilities, and police and fire protection, open to all on equal terms.

The cost to United States for construction is estimated at $91,200. The cost to local interests for compliance with conditions of local cooperation is estimated at $61,350, which does not include $11,500, the cost of self-liquidating works.

Total cost of all work is estimated at $164,050.

The Federal annual carrying charges are estimated at $3,648, which includes annual maintenance cost of $100.

The non-Federal annual carrying charge is $2,511.

The total annual carrying charge is estimated at $6,159.

The annual benefits are estimated at $10,522, of which $5,290 is for damages prevented to recreational craft, $5,120 is the evaluated benefit for increased safety to life, the provision of a harbor of refuse, and for the convenience of adequate facilities, and $112 is the evaluated benefit that will accrue to visiting craft.

Compared with an annual carrying charge of $6,159 the evaluated benefits totaling $10,522 indicates a benefit-cost ratio of 1.71.

There was no objection to the proposed improvement expressed to the board.

Senator MALONE. Do you have any further description of the project, Colonel?

Colonel MOORE. No, sir.

Senator MALONE. I think that will complete the hearing on this project unless you have something further, Colonel.

Colonel MOORE. I have nothing further.

Senator MALONE. After conferring with Congressman Martin or anyone, you may wish to file a supplemental statement. We will be glad to have it.