Word: spillways
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Major General James Dinkins, Chief of Cavalry of the United Confederate Veterans, has so enjoyed reading "The Spillway," a colyum in the New Orleans Item, that with a fine flourish he commissioned its conductor, William G. Wiegand...
...cruise rapidly down through the six engineering districts of the Mississippi. Problem No. 1: Should a gft. channel be dug north from St. Louis to Minneapolis? Later on Secretary Hurley was prepared to inspect by airplane the floodways at New Madrid and Bonnet Carre, and the Le Boeuf Spillway...
...spillway at Bonnet Carre, La.-$2,200,000. To buy one-third of the flowage rights for same...
After Chairman Reid's state had had its say, Louisianians were heard on the desirability of utilizing the Atchafalaya River as a natural spillway, and of building other spillways, to carry the gathered volume of the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico by short cuts above New Orleans...
...spillway is a ditch dug alongside and parallel to a river so that when the river overflows the excess water will be taken off by the spillway. The Mississippi and would become a natural spillway to the Atchafalaya Rivers run roughly parallel through Louisiana, so that by establishing a channel between them the Atchafalaya Mississippi...