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acre-feet acres ACTIVE AUTHORIZED PROJECTS advisable AUTHORIZED PROJECTS cont'd availability of funds Big Sandy River channel improvement concrete wall conservation pool construction contingent Corps of Engineers County Cumberland River Dale Hollow Dale Hollow Reservoir determine the advisa Dewey Reservoir drainage area earth levee estimated cost existing federal feet above mean flood control project flood flows flood protection Fork freeboard Green River improvements for flood interests Kentucky River Licking River LM-M locks and dams Louisville maximum of record mean sea level Middlesboro miles of earth miles upstream Mississippi River mouth Name and Scope Ohio River Ohio River navigation Ohio River tributaries OR-H OR-N project is located PROJECT The project reservoirs authorized River and Tributaries River Navigation Project Rough River Scope of Investigation spillway storage capacity storage of flood stream system of reservoirs temporary storage Tennessee River tion tons traffic Tributaries Survey Wolf Creek Wolf Creek Dam Yellow Creek
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Page 7 - As a flood control project the reservoir is operated as a unit of a coordinated reservoir system for flood protection in the Cumberland and Ohio River valleys . The coordinated system of reservoirs is designed to reduce the project flood on the Ohio...
Page 13 - A storage capacity of 153,000 acre-feet would be provided for the temporary storage of flood flows. At full pool, elevation 831.5, the reservoir would have an area of 3,692 acres. The reservoir would be operated as a unit of a coordinated reservoir system for flood protection in the Kentucky and Ohio River Valleys. The coordinated system of reservoirs is designed to reduce the project flood on the Ohio River below the top of local protection projects on that stream, and to contribute to the reduction...
Page 36 - Proposals are given consideration in detail sufficient to determine their technical and economic soundness and the degree of Federal interest involved. The findings are reported to Congress where they are used as a guide in regard to the advisability of adoption or modification of water resources development...
Page 36 - Proposals are given consideration in sufficient detail to determine their technical and economic soundness and the degree of Federal interest involved. The findings are reported to Congress. They are used by Congress as a guide in regard to the advisability of adoption or modification of water resources development projects. Brief descriptions follow of the surveys under way which pertain to localities in West Virginia.
Page 36 - Tennessee is one of the means of keeping the program abreast of changing needs and situations. This phase of the program is undertaken in response to specific authorizations calling upon the Corps of Engineers to investigate problems related to the water resources development program.
Page 8 - The reservoir would be operated as a unit of a coordinated reservoir system for flood protection in the Little Miami and Ohio River Valleys. To the extent consistent with the primary purpose of the project, the reservoir area would be developed for beneficial uses of agricultural lands, forests, and fish and wildlife resources, and for the development of recreational activities. The estimated cost of the project, all Federal, Is $12,800,000.
Page 13 - Priest share of the damages prevented, including benefits credited to the project as its share of the system effect in the reduction of flood flows on the Lower Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, is estimated to be $45,100,000 through June 1977.
Page 18 - Additional work, consisting of enlargement of levee section, construction of riverside and landside berms, construction of wavewash protection, and provision of seepage control measures will be required. The levee line on the west bank begins just south of Cape Girardeau, and except for gaps where tributaries join the Mississippi, extends unbroken almost to the Gulf of Mexico. The longest continuous levee line in the Mississippi River and tributaries project, and probably in the world, begins at...
Page 18 - It will make navigation through this reach of the river require only one lockage in lieu of two required by existing facilities. A substantial savings in transportation costs will result, as well as a reduction in the cost of maintaining and operating the existing facilities. The amount that has been requested in the President's budget is $2.81 million.