Comprehensive Flood Control Plan for Ohio and Lower Mississippi Rivers: Hearings Before the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, on Levees and Flood Walls, Ohio River Basin, H. R. 7393 and H. R. 7646, a Bill to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act Authorizing the Construction of Certain Public Works on Rivers and Harbors for Flood Control, and for Other Purposes", Approved June 22, 1936. June 7-11 and June 15-18, 1937U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - 425 страници |
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acres Agriculture Allegheny Allegheny River ALLEN amount Army engineers authorized benefit BENNETT bill Cairo Captain REBER CARLSON CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers Cincinnati CLASON Colonel ELLIOTT Colonel POWELL communities concrete wall Congress construction Corps of Engineers County COVELL crest CROOKER Cumberland River dams DEMUTH Department district drainage erosion Evansville Federal Government feet FERGUSON Flood Control Act flood stage flood walls floodway flowage Forest Service gage glad GREGG highways Huntington inches January Jeffersonville Kentucky lands and damages Lawrenceburg levees Levees and concrete located loss Louisville Major FRECH Major LIEBER MARKHAM miles Monongahela Mound City MUNNS Muskingum Ohio River Ohio Valley Paducah percent Pittsburgh question QUINN railroad rain rainfall record reservoirs rights-of-way RIVER BASIN ROSENHEIM run-off statement streams Tenn Tennessee Tennessee River THISTLEWOOD tion town tributaries United upper Wabash watershed West Virginia ZIMMERMAN
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