CONTENTS Supplemental statements of the Department of the Interior.. Page LETTER OF SUBMITTAL TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE COMMITTEE ON WATER FLOW, Subject: Report on the Gulf region. To: The President's Committee on Water Flow. 1. In accordance with the oral instructions received February 20, 1934, from the Secretary of the Interior, I transmit the report of the Technical Advisory Subcommittee on Water Flow for the Gulf Region. THE GULF REGION REPORT OF THE REGIONAL TECHNICAL ADVISORY SUB COMMITTEE INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 1. In accordance with oral instructions received February 20, 1934, the technical subcommittee for the Gulf region has prepared and submits for consideration a committee report and map relating to the use and control of the water resources of 10 selected areas draining into the Gulf of Mexico, together with separate statements of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture. (See map on following page.) The membership of the subcommittee consists of-War Department: Maj. Milo P. Fox and Lt. Col. W. T. Hannum; Interior Department: George O. Sanford and C. G. Paulsen; Agriculture Department: William A. Hartman, A. J. Peters, W. R. Chapline, and E. O. Wooton. 2. The subcommittee conceived that in the preparation of these reports an effort should be made to present descriptions of 10 individual watersheds together with a statement of the present problems in regard to the water resources of each of these basins, and an outline of a project for each, so far as available data permitted, which would provide most effectively for the complete utilization and control of these water resources. The aim of the committee has been to present this information as concisely as practicable, and yet in sufficient detail to permit reviewing authorities to gage the desirability of the individual stream basins as subjects for further continuing study. While certain features of the individual projects submitted are doubtless now economically justified, the committee conceives that its primary function is the presentation of a picture of the potential improvements in each basin that may be justified within the next 25 to 50 years. 3. Representatives of three departments contributed to the committee report, each department covering in general those features with which it is primarily concerned. The War Department reported upon the navigation, power, flood-control features of all streams considered except the Rio Grande; the Interior Department reported upon the Rio Grande; and the Agricultural and Interior Departments upon watershed management. The report as submitted is only a brief synopsis of the data available, and if desired, can be supplemented by the various departments. 4. In addition to outlining the 10 projects the subcommittee has endeavored to arrange the stream basins in the order in which it considers that they merit further investigations with a view to drawing up in more detail and executing improvements found desirable. In this arrangement the subcommittee has considered all of the above subjects and has endeavored to grade the streams in the order in which the complete developments envisaged will result in general |