Chapter 157. Authorizing a survey for the control of excess flood waters of the Mississippi River below Point Breeze in Louisiana and on the Atchafalaya Outlet by the construction and maintenance of controlled and regulated spillway or spillways, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 157.— An Act Authorizing a survey for the control of excess flood waters of the Mississippi River below Point Breeze in Louisiana and on the Atchafalaya Outlet by the construction and maintenance of controlled and regulated spillway or spillways, and for other purposes.April 17, 1926.[[H. R. 9957](/us/bill/69/hr/9957).][[Public, No. 134](/us/pl/69/134).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mississippi River.Survey, etc., directed to control excess flood waters of, below Point Breeze, La., etc.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a survey to be made, and estimates of the costs of such controlled and regulated spillway or spillways as may be necessary for the diversion and control of a sufficient volume of the excess 301flood waters of the Mississippi River between Point Breeze and Port Jackson in Louisiana, in order to prevent the waters of said river exceeding stages of approximately sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty feet on the Carrollton gauge at New Orleans, and of approximately forty-six, forty-seven, and forty-eight feet on the gauge at Simmesport on the Atchafalaya Outlet, and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause the MississippiMississippi River Commission to furnish data, etc., relating to.
River Commission to transmit to him all engineering records, data, field notes, and such other information in its possession as he may deem desirable and useful in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Sec. 2. The Secretary of War is authorized to use $50,000,Funds to be used. or so much thereof as may be necessary, from funds heretofore appropriated for flood control, Mississippi River, to carry out the objects and purposes of this Act: *Provided*, That no spillway shall*Proviso*.Diverting waters to Mississippi Sound forbidden. be constructed as a result of the survey authorized by this Act whereby the waters of the Mississippi River would be diverted into Mississippi Sound.
Sec. 3. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directedReport to Congress. to report to the Congress as soon as practicable the results of the survey authorized by this Act. Approved, April 17, 1926.