Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1762
Book Description
Omnibus Water Resources Authorization--1972
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control: Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Omnibus Water Resources Authorizations - 1972, Hearings Before Teh Subcommittee on Flood Control - Rivers and Harbors ..., 92-1, June 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, and 28, 1972
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
Omnibus Water Resources Authorizations--1972
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control: Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 1702
Book Description
Holding Back the River
Author: Tyler J. KelleyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501187066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A revelatory work of reporting on the men and women wrestling to harness and preserve America’s most vital natural resource: our rivers. The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America’s rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water. Rivers are also part of our mythology, our collective soul; they are Mark Twain, Led Zeppelin, and the Delta Blues. But as infrastructure across the nation fails and climate change pushes rivers and seas to new heights, we’ve arrived at a critical moment in our battle to tame these often-destructive forces of nature. Tyler J. Kelley spent two years traveling the heartland, getting to know the men and women whose lives and livelihoods rely on these tenuously tamed streams. On the Illinois-Kentucky border, we encounter Luther Helland, master of the most important—and most decrepit—lock and dam in America. This old dam at the end of the Ohio River was scheduled to be replaced in 1998, but twenty years and $3 billion later, its replacement still isn’t finished. As the old dam crumbles and commerce grinds to a halt, Helland and his team must risk their lives, using steam-powered equipment and sheer brawn, to raise and lower the dam as often as ten times a year. In Southeast Missouri, we meet Twan Robinson, who lives in the historically Black village of Pinhook. As a super-flood rises on the Mississippi, she learns from her sister that the US Army Corps of Engineers is going to blow up the levee that stands between her home and the river. With barely enough notice to evacuate her elderly mother and pack up a few of her own belongings, Robinson escapes to safety only to begin a nightmarish years-long battle to rebuild her lost community. Atop a floodgate in central Louisiana, we’re beside Major General Richard Kaiser, the man responsible for keeping North America’s greatest river under control. Kaiser stands above the spot where the Mississippi River wants to change course, abandoning Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and following the Atchafalaya River to the sea. The daily flow of water from one river to the other is carefully regulated, but something else is happening that may be out of Kaiser and the Corps’ control. America’s infrastructure is old and underfunded. While our economy, society, and climate have changed, our levees, locks, and dams have not. Yet to fix what’s wrong will require more than money. It will require an act of imagination. “With meticulous research and insightful analysis” (Publishers Weekly), Holding Back the River brings us into the lives of the Americans who grapple with our mighty rivers and, through their stories, suggests solutions to some of the century’s greatest challenges.
Payment
Author: United States. Office of Revenue SharingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This publication lists the payments made to government units as provided under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 (P.L.92-512).
House documents
Author: Nebraska Blue Book
Author: Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1975
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1894
Book Description