Development of the Rivers of the United States: Message from the President of the United States Transmitting a Preliminary Report on a Comprehensive Plan for the Improvement and Development of the Rivers of the United States with a View of Giving the Congress Information for the Guidance of Legislation which Will Provide for the Maximum Amount of Flood Control, Navigation, Irrigation, and Development of Hydroelectric PowerU.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 - 423 Seiten |
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... mountainous , semiarid , and desert or near - desert areas , extensively used for grazing . Esti- mates 70 to 75 percent suffering from sheet washing and gullying due to overgrazing . Damage mainly by water erosion , but wind erosion ...
... mountainous , semiarid , and desert or near - desert areas , extensively used for grazing . Esti- mates 70 to 75 percent suffering from sheet washing and gullying due to overgrazing . Damage mainly by water erosion , but wind erosion ...
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... Mountain chains and the Ozark - Ouachita area of Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Missouri , totaling about 95,000,000 acres . While only relatively small amounts in these areas have been cleared for agriculture , and then abandoned , they ...
... Mountain chains and the Ozark - Ouachita area of Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Missouri , totaling about 95,000,000 acres . While only relatively small amounts in these areas have been cleared for agriculture , and then abandoned , they ...
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... mountainous regions . 4. Navigation projects have been adopted for substantially all streams in those portions of them lying in the Coastal Plain . In general , these projects contemplate_only open channel improvement , including ...
... mountainous regions . 4. Navigation projects have been adopted for substantially all streams in those portions of them lying in the Coastal Plain . In general , these projects contemplate_only open channel improvement , including ...
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... mountain and Piedmont regions . Flood control and power development pertain principally to the Piedmont region , while navigation and flood protection are largely confined to the Coastal Plain . There is no such degree of coordina- tion ...
... mountain and Piedmont regions . Flood control and power development pertain principally to the Piedmont region , while navigation and flood protection are largely confined to the Coastal Plain . There is no such degree of coordina- tion ...
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... Mountains in east central New York and flows about 275 miles to the head of Delaware Bay . It forms the boundary between the States of New York and New Jersey on the east and Pennsylvania and Delaware on the west . The drainage area is ...
... Mountains in east central New York and flows about 275 miles to the head of Delaware Bay . It forms the boundary between the States of New York and New Jersey on the east and Pennsylvania and Delaware on the west . The drainage area is ...
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accompanying map acre-feet acres ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE WASHINGTON annual Arkansas River canal capacity channel City Coastal Plain Colorado River Columbia River comprehensive plan conservation considerable construction Creek crops cubic feet cultivated drainage area drainage basin Engineers erosion control estimated cost existing extensive farm lands Federal feet per second flood control forest land Fork ground water ground-water Gulf headwaters important includes industrial installed irrigation Kanawha River kilowatts Lake levees locks and dams lower ment Mexico Mississippi River Missouri Mountains mouth navigation Ohio River Osage River percent Piedmont Platte power development power plants present principal problems proposed public ownership rainfall reforestation REGIONAL TECHNICAL ADVISORY River Basin run-off San Joaquin San Joaquin River silt slopes soil erosion square miles storage reservoirs stream flow TECHNICAL ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE tion tributaries underground water upper utilization Valley water power water resources water supply water-power watershed wildlife
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Seite 55 - ... mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right-of-way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Seite 55 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Seite 56 - ... for canals, ditches, pipes and pipe lines, flumes, tunnels, or other water conduits, and for water plants, dams, and reservoirs used to promote irrigation or mining or quarrying, or the manufacturing or cutting of timber and lumber, or the supplying of water for domestic, public, or any other beneficial uses...
Seite 57 - ... assigned in whole or in part, even though water-right application has been filed for the land in connection with the Government reclamation project, or application for an extension of time in which to submit proof on the entry has been submitted, under the act of June 27, 1906 (34 Stat. 520; 43 USC 448), as amended by the act of June 6, 1930 (46 Stat. 502; 43 USC 448). requiring reduction of the area of the entry to one farm unit.
Seite 296 - MH moves through the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River to Lake Erie, a distance of about 84 miles, and there is no definite control section which determines the volume of outflow.
Seite 169 - This unit was established in 1931 by the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture for research in health hazards of food constituents and contaminants, spray residues, and insecticides.
Seite 53 - Act; for recompensing it for the use, occupancy, and enjoyment of its lands or other property ; and for the expropriation to the Government of excessive profits until the respective States shall make provision for preventing excessive profits or for the expropriation thereof to themselves, or until the period of amortization as herein provided is reached...
Seite 406 - River, and include all of the State of Michigan and parts of the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Vermont.
Seite 217 - The Ohio River is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Pittsburg, in the western part of Pennsylvania.