Nine-foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Nine-Foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, United States SenateU.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - Canals |
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adjustable type afterwards furnished amount of water applies to Lake believe Board of Engineers bridge Brigadier General JADWIN BROUSSARD Canadian side CHAIRMAN Chicago diversion Chicago drainage Chief of Engineers city of Chicago Clair River collateral questions construction of regulating controlling cubic feet disparity Diversion of water division engineer Dominion of Canada drainage canal feasible feet per second foot lower Governments Illinois River increase the expense increase the level Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Michi Lake Michigan Lake Ontario Lake Superior Lakes system LAKES TO GULF Lawrence River Lawrence waterway low-water lowest matter Michigan and Huron natural flow navigation Niagara River NINE-FOOT CHANNEL outlet of Lake outlet of Ontario permitted to go plants power houses put into operation reason record Reed second-feet Secretary Root SELECT COMMITTEE Senator BROOKHART sewage Slightly lower small cross section treaty vance water comes water goes
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Page 5 - They consented to leave out of this treaty any reference to the drainage canal, and we are now taking 10,000 cubic feet per second for the drainage canal, which really comes out of this lake system.
Page 5 - I think, that 36,000 feet can be taken out on the Canadian side and 18,500 on the American side without injury to the Falls. I thought it wise to follow the report of the commission and...
Page 1 - The committee to investigate the problem of a nine-foot channel in the waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico...
Page 5 - Then there is this further fact why we could not object to this 36,000 cubic feet on the Canadian side: We are now taking 10,000 cubic feet per second out of Lake Michigan at Chicago, and I refused to permit them to say anything in the treaty about it.