Floods in Kansas and Missouri, 1951: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, on the Destructive Floods in Kansas and Missouri, July 1951 ; Including Hearings by the Inspection Committee at St. Louis, Mo., and Topeka, Kans. July 31, August 4 and 6, 1951U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951 - 184 páginas |
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acres agencies agricultural Allen County Argentine Arkansas Army engineers August authorized average annual damages bridges buildings Chairman DAVIS Chanute city of Iola completed computed Congress construction Corps of Engineers crest crops dikes disaster disastrous flood discharge district dollars erosion estimated cost farm families affected farm land farmers Federal feet flood control flood damage flood protection flood-control plan flooded areas floodwaters Frankfort funds highway homes immediate improvement inches industrial inundated July 13 Kanopolis Kans Kansas City Kansas River Kaw River Kaw Valley levees Lincoln Lindsborg Louis Manhattan Marais des Cygnes Mississippi Missouri River Neosho County Neosho River number damaged Osawatomie Ottawa percent PICK Pick-Sloan plan plant present railroads rain rainfall recommended record rehabilitation repair Representative GEORGE Representative MAGEE Republican Republican River reservoirs Salina Soil Conservation Service square miles stage statement Strawn stream studies survey Topeka tributaries Tuttle Creek United Washington watershed Whereas
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Página 56 - Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet...
Página 86 - That, hereafter, Federal investigations and improvements of rivers and other waterways for flood control and allied purposes shall be under the jurisdiction of and shall be prosecuted by the War Department under the direction of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Página 86 - Federal investigations and improvements of rivers and other waterways for flood control and allied purposes...
Página 116 - Congress should direct the responsible Federal agencies to submit new proposals for water resources development to Congress only in the form of basin programs which deal with entire basins as units and which take into account all relevant purposes in water and land development.
Página 116 - ... difficulty, or not at all. There are only a relatively few suitable dam sites, and once they are appropriated, the possibilities for economic multiplepurpose development are very limited. Once an irrigation project is developed, it cannot be moved because unfavorable soil or climate factors are discovered. There is a sobering finality in the construction of a river basin development; and it behooves us to be sure we are right before we go ahead.
Página 116 - Conservation storage of flood waters in the soil, underground, and in surface reservoirs on tributaries and upper reaches of rivers should be a principal factor in the planning and development of river basin programs. 2. Consistent with other aspects of the basin program, flood storage should be located and designed to assure the greatest possible use and reuse of floodwaters for domestic water supply, recharge of ground water, irrigation, industrial water supply, navigation improvement, hydroelectric...
Página 116 - The necessity of planning for a river basin as a whole instead of having a patchwork of plans by separate agencies for separate purposes.
Página 116 - Congress should direct all Federal departments and agencies responsible for the development of water and land resources to promptly review as coordinated groups all existing plans and programs in cooperation with interested States, and to cooperate in preparing coordinated plans for water resources development for the several river basins.
Página 21 - Mexico, to be completed within twenty years; of the Mississippi River between the mouth of the Missouri and the mouth of the Ohio River...
Página 1 - I wish to thank the chairman of the full committee and the chairman of the subcommittee for honoring that pledge.