Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, and Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan: Hearings ... Sixty-seventh Congress, Second Session, Sept. 14, 1922U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - 35 páginas Considers H.R. 12620, relating to the improvement of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, the removal of locks and dams from the Illinois River, the regulation of flow from Lake Michigan, and the control of floods of the Illinois River and tributaries. |
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40 acres 50 cents amount April Bainbridge Township Beards bill boats BOND bridges Burlington & Quincy bushels CARITHERS Chairman and gentlemen channel Chicago Drainage Chicago Sanitary District Chief of Engineers city of Beardstown city of Chicago CLOUSE Coal Creek drainage Congress construction Copperas Creek Corn land cover cubic feet dams and locks deep waterway District of Chicago drainage and levee drainage canal drainage districts dredging Farm machinery Federal dams flood conditions flood control GARM GOODELL Grafton Grain in stock Grange Harbors Committee Illinois River Valley Illinois Valley improvement interest January JESSE LOWE Kampsville Kankakee River La Grange Lake Michigan levee district locks and dams loss and damage Lots and pasture low-water Meadow clover MICHAELSON Mississippi River Peoria reclaimed lands Rivers and Harbors Schuyler County second-feet September sewage Shadrack Bond SHAW square miles statement stream town tributaries valley lands water from Lake watershed Winter wheat
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Página 1 - Twofifths to be disbursed, under the direction of Congress, in making roads leading to the state ; the residue to be appropriated, by the legislature of the state, for the encouragement of learning, of which one-sixth part shall be exclusively bestowed on a college or university.
Página 17 - Document 263, 59th Congress, First Session, signed by Col. Ernst, Lieut. Col. Bixby and Major Casey, the following statement is made : "The additional flow provided by the Chicago Drainage Canal is now 4,200 cubic feet per second. It will allow the removal of the present locks and dams, and it makes practicable the maintenance of an open channel considerably deeper than the seven feet now provided by these structures.
Página 17 - The Rivers and Lakes Commission recommends and advises as follows: 1. The four State and Federal dams in the Illinois River between Utica and the Mississippi River should be removed, subject to the provision that the dredging and channel improvement necessary to secure a minimum depth of 7 feet is insured. 2. The Sanitary District of Chicago should be permitted to remove the Henry and Copperas Creek dams, subject to specific stipulations as to dredging regulations by the State through the Rivers...
Página 17 - We, therefore, do not advocate the unconditional removal of these dams at the present time. The next question is, can the dams now be removed providing compensating channel improvements be made ? On page 18 of a Report by a Board of Officers of the Corps of Engineers of the US Army upon a navigable waterway through the Illinois River, Document 263, 59th Congress, First Session, signed by Col. Ernst, Lieut. Col. Bixby and Major Casey, the following statement is made : "The additional flow provided...