Civil Functions, Department of the Army Appropriations, 1953: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 7268, Making Appropriations for Civil Functions Administered by the Department of the Army for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1953 |
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... feet through their gates . When I say second - feet , that means so many cubic feet passing a given point per second . It meant if they kept dumping it and around fifty - four feet on the Cairo gage , it would raise the flood level at ...
... feet through their gates . When I say second - feet , that means so many cubic feet passing a given point per second . It meant if they kept dumping it and around fifty - four feet on the Cairo gage , it would raise the flood level at ...
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... feet , and the reservoir system will control the runoff from 263,000 square miles , the upper half of the drainage basin of the entire Missouri River . Levees planned along the banks of the Missouri River below Sioux City will control ...
... feet , and the reservoir system will control the runoff from 263,000 square miles , the upper half of the drainage basin of the entire Missouri River . Levees planned along the banks of the Missouri River below Sioux City will control ...
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... feet on the Missouri River . All of the streams were covered with ice . When this water started to run off as a result of the melting of the Snow , it came down these small streams , breaking up that ice as it went and pusshing it out ...
... feet on the Missouri River . All of the streams were covered with ice . When this water started to run off as a result of the melting of the Snow , it came down these small streams , breaking up that ice as it went and pusshing it out ...
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... feet per second at one time . If that water had gotten into the river and had gotten in here behind this ice jam and gone on down to Omaha , the gage height there would have been 2 feet higher than it was . FORT PECK RESERVOIR DISCHARGE ...
... feet per second at one time . If that water had gotten into the river and had gotten in here behind this ice jam and gone on down to Omaha , the gage height there would have been 2 feet higher than it was . FORT PECK RESERVOIR DISCHARGE ...
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... feet . FLOOD CHANNEL So all of this flood had to go through that bottleneck . We foresaw that when we were designing the works at Omaha and Council Bluffs . We designed them to take care of a flood which was 3 feet higher than any flood ...
... feet . FLOOD CHANNEL So all of this flood had to go through that bottleneck . We foresaw that when we were designing the works at Omaha and Council Bluffs . We designed them to take care of a flood which was 3 feet higher than any flood ...
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Page 53 - We will place the whole statement in the record at this point and we will be glad to hear your summary of items you think should be highlighted for the committee.
Page 243 - Providing that the penalties and procedure applicable to violations of the laws for the protection and preservation of the navigable waters of the United States...
Page 442 - Are there any further questions? If not, thank you very much, gentlemen, for all of your appearances here today.
Page 597 - The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams, where running through or bordering said reservation, is further secured to said confederated tribes and bands of Indians, as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places, in common with citizens of the Territory...
Page 216 - Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring'), That the Senate advise and consent to the...
Page 215 - ... before the agent, the property taken shall be returned, or in default thereof, or if injured or destroyed, compensation may be made by the Government out of their annuities. Nor will they make war on any other tribe except in...
Page 215 - This treaty shall be obligatory upon the contracting parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President and Senate of the United States.
Page 776 - Governor of the Canal Zone and President of the Panama Canal Company.
Page 588 - That the exclusive right of taking fish in the streams running through and bordering said reservation is hereby secured to said Indians, and at all other usual and accustomed stations in common with citizens of the United States...
Page 381 - Because of the diversion features and the close inter-relation of the areas subject to flooding from this group of streams, all project features are Integrated and full benefits cannot be realized from individual structures until the project is completed as a whole. For instance, Bear Creek affords the greatest threat to the city of Merced and environs, and that threat will not be removed until Bear Creek Reservoir is completed and in operation.