The Illinois Waterway--diversion of Water from Lake Michigan: Hearings Before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on H.R. 8327, a Bill to Promote Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to Improve the Navigability of the Lakes-to-the Gulf Waterway, and for Other Purposes. January, February, March, and April 1938 |
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... Lake Michigan between the time the contractor submitted his bid and the time the program called for construction of the dock walls ; this rate was the result of a combi- nation of natural causes , and ... LAKE MICHIGAN WATER DIVERSION.
... Lake Michigan between the time the contractor submitted his bid and the time the program called for construction of the dock walls ; this rate was the result of a combi- nation of natural causes , and ... LAKE MICHIGAN WATER DIVERSION.
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... Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River , and that in turn depends upon an adequate supply of water for its functioning . This waterway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River— known as the Illinois Waterway from the Great Lakes to ...
... Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River , and that in turn depends upon an adequate supply of water for its functioning . This waterway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River— known as the Illinois Waterway from the Great Lakes to ...
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... Lakes-to-the Gulf Waterway, and for Ot United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors. on the Lakes or water supply of the cities of the Lakes . That is my information . Mr. DONDERO . If our diversion of water from Lake ...
... Lakes-to-the Gulf Waterway, and for Ot United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors. on the Lakes or water supply of the cities of the Lakes . That is my information . Mr. DONDERO . If our diversion of water from Lake ...
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... lake - port town making any com- plaint and we are not asking after December 31 , 1938 , to take any more water at all . Just let us keep what we have . Mr. BEITER . You have said you have not heard any of ... LAKE MICHIGAN WATER DIVERSION.
... lake - port town making any com- plaint and we are not asking after December 31 , 1938 , to take any more water at all . Just let us keep what we have . Mr. BEITER . You have said you have not heard any of ... LAKE MICHIGAN WATER DIVERSION.
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... Lake Michigan in the treaty , because it is an American lake , entirely within the Ameri- can watershed . It is 60 miles from the Canadian border at the near- est point and no drop of Canadian water enters therein . The spokesmen of the ...
... Lake Michigan in the treaty , because it is an American lake , entirely within the Ameri- can watershed . It is 60 miles from the Canadian border at the near- est point and no drop of Canadian water enters therein . The spokesmen of the ...
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Page 675 - States; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony ; and to report to the several states such an act relative to this great object as, when unanimously ratified by them, will enable the United States in Congress assembled effectually to provide for the same...
Page 410 - ... but it is agreed that any interference with or diversion from their natural channel of such waters on either side of the boundary, resulting in any injury on the other side of the boundary, shall give rise to the same rights and entitle the injured parties to the same legal remedies as if such injury took place in the country where such diversion or interference occurs...
Page 97 - Sir, let but this our celestial goddess Liberty stretch forth her fair hand toward the people of the Old World, tell them to come, and bid them welcome — and you will see them pouring in from the north...
Page 18 - Canada, or the Province of Ontario, may authorize and permit the diversion within the Province of Ontario of the waters of said river above the Falls of Niagara, for power purposes, not exceeding in the aggregate a daily diversion at the rate of thirty-six thousand cubic feet of water per second.
Page 191 - I have a statement to make on behalf of the board of commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, an agency of the State of Louisiana.
Page 53 - ... channel of such waters on either side of the boundary, resulting in any injury on the other side of the boundary, shall give rise to the same rights and entitle the injured parties to the same legal remedies as if such injury took place in the country where such diversion or interference occurs; but this provision shall not apply to cases already existing or to cases expressly covered by special agreement between the parties hereto.
Page 467 - Hoover back in 1950 tellingly pointed this out before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate.
Page 675 - Not long previous to the writing of this letter, Washington had been visited at Mount Vernon by commissioners, who had been appointed by the legislatures of Virginia and Maryland to form a compact relative to the navigation of the rivers Potomac and Pocomoke, and of part of the Chesapeake Bay, and who had met at Alexandria for the purpose.
Page 57 - The following order of precedence shall be observed among the various uses enumerated hereinafter for these waters, and no use shall be permitted which tends materially to conflict with or restrain any other use which is given preference over it in this order of precedence: 1. Uses for domestic and sanitary purposes; 2. Uses for navigation, including the service of canals for the purposes of navigation; 3. Uses for power and for irrigation purposes.
Page 233 - ... for the purpose of any order or direction, or modification of this decree, or any supplemental decree, which it may deem at any time to be proper in relation to the subject matter in controversy.