Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Senate Commerce Committee started to consider investigating the whole project. Senator Fletcher was doing his best to preserve the canal's good name while Senator Vandenberg of Michigan was producing considerable damaging evidence against...
...than northern Florida began to rejoice and southern Florida to complain. Tampa growled because it feared it would lose its pre-eminence as Florida's west coast port, but Tampa's growls were hardly heard in the louder protests of fruit and vegetable growers south of the canal route...
Near Ocala the water level in the limestone is 40 ft. above sea level. From the point where the canal cuts into the limestone south of Palatka to the Gulf, the bottom of the canal will be over 30 ft. below sea level. Thus the question, important to all of Florida south of the canal, arises: What is to prevent the canal from acting as a drainage ditch to carry off water to a depth of 70 ft. below the present water table? Army engineers confidently say they will plug up the leaks, prevent the drainage, not lower the water...
Senator Vandenberg produced letters from numerous shipping companies declaring that, even if the canal is free, they will not use it because the expense and trouble of employing canal pilots, the risk of damage to ships in transit and increased costs of insurance would outweigh the saving in time. To show that Florida's geologist was not alone in his opinion, Senator Vandenberg next produced a letter by Harry Slattery, personal assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Said the letter: "Unless the canal could be effectively sealed throughout many miles of its course, a procedure presenting difficulties that...
...Moreover, after an unlined sea-level canal, with the passage of time, had drained down the fresh water now in the limestone, ocean water, particularly from the western end, would tend to enter the canal at high tide and to seep into the limestone along the canal banks and thus to contaminate its fresh waters." According to Mr. Slattery, the U. S. Geological Survey was of this opinion...