Missouri River Basin--conservation, Control, and Use of Water Resources Including Floodwaters: Hearings Before the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 4795, a Bill to Authorize the Undertaking of the Initial Stage of the Comprehensive Plan for the Conservation, Control, and Use of the Water Resources of the Missouri River Basin, December 1, 1944U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945 - 43 pages |
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agriculture amendment American annual areas Army engineers ARTHUR CAPPER BARRETT beneficial benefits better crops Bureau of Reclamation canals caused CHAIRMAN Committee on Irrigation comprehensive plan conservation construction control and water cost creeks decrease ditches dredging droughts Dust Bowl dust storms effects farmers farms favorable flood control flood troubles flood waters flood-control bill foods FORT PECK DAM German methods gradual ground water ground-water supplies growing HORAN in-soak Indo-British methods initial stage IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION Kansas Kaw River land LEMKE levees losses methods of flood methods of stream Mississippi River Missouri River Basin Montana MURDOCK nations navigation needs North Dakota places Plains post-war employment present profits projects rainfall readily reclamation plan recommended reconciled record reservoirs second session Senate Document 191 Senate Document 247 Seventy-eighth Congress storage stream flow stream management subcommittee system of flood tion upstream dams WARNE water resources widely WILLIAM LEMKE Yellowstone River
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Page 12 - There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Page 12 - That no project herein authorized shall be appropriated for or constructed until six months after the termination of the present wars in which the United States is engaged unless the construction of such project has been recommended by an authorized defense agency and approved by the President as being necessary or desirable in the interest of the national defense and security, and the President has notified the Congress to that effect...
Page 11 - North Republican (Wray) (Colorado-Nebraska). Pumping. Montana : Canyon Ferry Reservoir. Glasgow Bench Pumping. Hardin (including Yellowtail Dam). Marias. Missouri-.Souris (Montana division). South Bench. Yellowstone River pumping units. North Dakota: Heart River. Knife River. Missouri-Souris (North Dakota division). Missouri River pumping units (5). South Dakota: Angostura. Grand River (Shadehill-Bluehorse). Oahe (James River). Rapid Valley (including Brennan Reservoir). Wyoming : Big Horn pumping...
Page 1 - I find desirable and feasible the development of the Missouri River Basin in accordance with this Report on the Conservation, Control, and Use of the Water Resources of the Missouri River Basin...
Page 12 - Congress, second session, which was "a bill to authorize the undertaking of the initial stage of the comprehensive plan for the conservation, control, and use of the water resources of the Missouri River Basin.
Page 12 - Congress, second session, are hereby approved and the initial stages recommended are hereby authorized and shall be prosecuted by the War Department and the Department of the Interior as speedily as may be consistent with budgetary requirements.
Page 7 - Document 101 . . . , as modified in accordance with the recommendations of this joint report, be authorized as a basic engineering plan to be developed and administered by a Missouri Valley Authority...
Page 11 - Colorado: Transmountain diversion projects were not considered a part of this basin. Kansas-Nebraska: Bostwick. Cedar Bluff. Frenchman-Cambridge. Kirwin. North Republican (Wray) (Colorado-Nebraska). Pumping. Montana: Canyon Ferry Reservoir. Glasgow Bench pumping. Hardin (including Yellowtail Dam). Marias. Missouri-Souris (Montana division). South Bench. Yellowstone River pumping units. North Dakota: Heart River. North Dakota — Continued Knife River. Missouri-Souris (North Dakota division). Missouri...
Page 1 - ... would add to an unavoidably precarious dry-farm and grazing economy the stabilizing influence of lands with insured, crops and high yields. The droughts of the last decade cost governmental agencies, principally Federal, a total of $1,246,557,087, and these expenditures were inadequate to the needs, since tens of thousands of families nevertheless were forced to migrate from their abandoned homes. These expenditures are roughly equal to the cost of full utilization of the waters of the Missouri...
Page 12 - Stat. 641) authorized a general comprehensive plan for the conservation, control and use of the water resources of the Missouri River Basin...