Control of Floods on the Mississippi and Sacramento Rivers ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 166
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 166
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 149
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karen M. O'Neill
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2006-05-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780822337607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States has one of the largest and costliest flood control systems in the world, even though only a small proportion of its land lies in floodplains. Rivers by Design traces the emergence of the mammoth U.S. flood management system, which is overseen by the federal government but implemented in conjunction with state governments and local contractors and levee districts. Karen M. O’Neill analyzes the social origins of the flood control program, showing how the system initially developed as a response to the demands of farmers and the business elite in outlying territories. The configuration of the current system continues to reflect decisions made in the nineteenth century and early twentieth. It favors economic development at the expense of environmental concerns. O’Neill focuses on the creation of flood control programs along the lower Mississippi River and the Sacramento River, the first two rivers to receive federal flood control aid. She describes how, in the early to mid-nineteenth century, planters, shippers, and merchants from both regions campaigned for federal assistance with flood control efforts. She explains how the federal government was slowly and reluctantly drawn into water management to the extent that, over time, nearly every river in the United States was reengineered. Her narrative culminates in the passage of the national Flood Control Act of 1936, which empowered the Army Corps of Engineers to build projects for all navigable rivers in conjunction with local authorities, effectively ending nationwide, comprehensive planning for the protection of water resources.
Author: Karen M. O'Neill
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006-05-03
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780822337737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVA sociological history of flood control politics that examines how local and regional pro-growth interests organized to press the federal government to protect land from flooding, and how this action altered the relationship between regions and the federa/div
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 602
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 1560
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 216
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Total Pages: 1216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 2442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee (U.S.). Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 214
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