Section 10: Proceed Speedily and Provide Reports On Various Rivers Systems
Surveys of the Mississippi River and its tributaries were to be done as speedily as practicable.
Directed the Corps of Engineers to prepare and submit reports on projects for flood control on tributaries of the Mississippi River including
- The Red River and tributaries
- The Yazoo River and tributaries
- The White River and tributaries
- The Saint Francis River and tributaries
- The Arkansas River and tributaries
- The Ohio River and tributaries
- The Missouri River and tributaries
- The Illinois River and tributaries
The reports were to include
- the effect of further flood control of the lower Mississippi River through control of flood waters in tributary drainage basins by the establishment of a reservoir system
- the benefits that will accrue to navigation and agriculture
- capacity of local districts to receive and hold flood waters
- prospective income from reservoir waters (e.g., hydropower)
- use of reservoirs for public and private uses
- return flow of waters, and
- the stabilizing effect on stream flow to prevent erosion, siltage, and improve navigation.
This direction from Congress had the impact of forcing the balancing of competing interests when considering flood control projects.
Authorized $5 million to be used out of the appropriation authorized by the Act, in addition to amounts authorized in the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1927, to be expended for the projects authorized. Directed flood surveys to be made simultaneously with the flood-control work on the Mississippi River.
Directed that the United States Department of Agriculture and such other agencies determine how Mississippi Valley floods may be controlled by proper forestry practice.
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