Supplemental Civil Functions, Department of the Army Appropriations, 1952: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, Making Appropriations for Civil Functions Administered by the Department of the Army for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1952U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951 - Broj stranica: 45 |
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access road Additional to complete allocation for fiscal Allotments to date amount approximately Bayou Bartholomew Bluff budget Chairman MCKELLAR CHORPENING Closure structures complete after fiscal construction continuing contract Corps of Engineers cost Through 1950 County date Tentative allocation drainage and levee East Cape Girardeau estimated Federal cost existing levee Federal cost Allotments feet fiscal year 1952 Fiscal year Fiscal flood damages flood protection flood-control program funds gravity drainage structures Hutchinson inundated June 30 Kans Kansas lands left bank levee district levee system Little Arkansas River major floods million Mississippi River Missouri Pacific Railroad Name of project North Mankato Oologah Oologah Reservoir Percentage of completion Perry County Prairie du Rocher project Total estimated provide protection pumping plant river-front levee Seepage corrective measures Senator CORDON Senator DIRKSEN Senator ELLENDER Senator HAYDEN Senator MCCLELLAN Senator THYE spillway Toronto Reservoir Total estimated Federal tributaries Verdigris River White River Wood River
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Stranica 12 - Railroad ; together with the necessary appurtenant works consisting of gravity drainage structures, highway and railroad closure structures, alterations to existing or construction of new pumping plants, surfacing of access road on the levee crown, making necessary alterations to railroad tracks and bridges at levee crossing, and construction of a low-water dam at the mouth of Wood River.
Stranica 16 - Location. — On the Big Blue River about 12 miles above the mouth of the stream in Riley and Pottawatomie Counties, Kans., about 6 miles north of Manhattan, Kans.
Stranica 6 - County, 111., on the left bank of the Mississippi River between river miles 184 and 194.5 above the mouth of the Ohio River.
Stranica 23 - Federal flood control activities should be set against the background of the nation-wide flood problem, which led Congress to adopt flood control as a Federal activity. The area of the continental United States comprises the basins of over 160 separate rivers with their tributaries, and the valleys of innumerable small streams which flow directly to the sea or to the Great Lakes. The waters and fertile valleys of these rivers constitute one of the most important of our national resources. Floods...
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Stranica 10 - Project Total estimated Federal cost Allotments to date Tentative allocation for fiscal year 1947 Additional to complete after fiscal year 1947 No.
Stranica 11 - ... $200,000; surfacing of access road on the lower portion of river-front levee, $40,000. Upon completion of the work proposed with present funds and the work proposed in the fiscal year 1949, the project will be about 81 percent complete. Justification. — This project in combination with the Grand Tower levee project will provide protection to about 47,400 acres of land against a flood of 50-year frequency. This district contains approximately 36,200 acres of land. The population of the district...
Stranica 23 - De Soto found the Mississippi in flood when his expedition reached that stream at the present location of Natchez, Miss. Efforts to control and protect against floods began with the earliest settlements in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi; but flood control as a Federal activity is of comparatively recent origin. Large scale and effective Federal flood control operations in the Mississippi Valley date from 1928, and flood control on Nation-wide scale began in 1936 with passage by Congress of...
Stranica 7 - The completion of this project and tie authorized work in the Preston Drainage and Levee District, the East Cape Girardeau and Clear Creek Drainage District, the Miller Pond Drainage District, and the North Alexander County Drainage District will provide protection to an area of 51,500 acres against a flood having an estimated frequency of once in 50 years.