Flood Control: Hearings Before the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on the Control of the Destructive Flood Waters of the United States . .U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - Flood control |
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acres amount Arkansas City Arkansas River Army engineers Atchafalaya Basin bank Bayou believe Bonnet Carre Bonnet Carre spillway Cairo Cape Girardeau cent CHAIRMAN channel Chief of Engineers Colonel KUTZ Colonel POTTER Colonel SEWELL commerce Congress construction cost course crevasse cubic feet damage DAVISON DELANO difference district engineers drainage effect estimate expense feet per second figure flood control act flood heights flood waters flow FREAR gauge give Government grade JACOBSTEIN Jadwin jurisdiction KEMPER KOPP land levee district lower Mississippi main river MCKEOWN mean miles Mississippi River Commission Missouri mouth navigation Ohio Old River Orleans paragraph problem proposition protection question RAGON Red River reservoir board revetment RIKER SEARS second-feet SINCLAIR spillway statement storage stream tell the committee Tensas Basin thing tion tributaries United White River WHITTINGTON WILSON Yazoo
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Page 2507 - ... to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Page 2507 - Engineers; the project to include the floodways, spillways, levees, channel stabilization, mapping, etc., hereinbefore recommended, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 2452 - That when the owner of such land, interest, or rights pertaining thereto shall fix a price for the same, which in the opinion of the Secretary of War shall be reasonable, he may purchase or enter into a contract for the use of the same at such price without further delay...
Page 2452 - ... the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, cause proceedings to be instituted in the name of the United States, for the acquirement by condemnation of said land or easement ; and it shall be the duty of the...
Page 2532 - If there are any questions, I shall be glad to answer them. (The statement by Mr.
Page 2531 - ... traveller returns. In ten years it will amount to fifteen millions; in twenty to but I will not pursue the appalling results of arithmetic. Gentlemen who believe that these vast sums are supplied by emigrants from the east, labor under great error. There was a time when the tide of emigration from the east bore along with it the means to effect the purchase of the public domain. But that tide has, in a great measure, now stopped.
Page 2529 - The grant in the Constitution of its own force, that is, without action by Congress, established the essential immunity of interstate commercial intercourse from the direct control of the States with respect to those subjects embraced within the grant which are of such a nature as to demand that, if regulated at all, their regulation should be prescribed by a single authority. It has repeatedly been declared by this Court that as to those subjects which require a general system or uniformity of regulation...
Page 2531 - But, Mr. Chairman, if there be any part of this union more likely than all others to be benefited by the adoption of the gentleman's principle, regulating the public expenditure, it is the west. There is a perpetual drain from that embarrassed and highly distressed portion of our country, of its circulating medium to the east. There, but few and inconsiderable expenditures of the public money take place.
Page 2532 - ... government require it. If this debilitating and exhausting process were inevitable, it must be borne with manly fortitude. But we think that a fit exertion of the powers of this government would mitigate the evil. We believe that the...
Page 2507 - That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States is hereby prohibited ; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead...