Flood protection and prevention. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports on preliminary examinations of Cheat River, Pa. and W. Va.; Tygarts River, West Fork River, Kanawha River and its tributaries, West Virginia; Muskingum River and its tributaries, Scioto River and its tributaries, Miami River and its tributaries, Ohio; Maumee River and its tributaries, Ohio and Indiana; Wabash River and its tributaries, Illinois and Indiana, with a view to devising plans for flood protection and determining the extent to which the United States should cooperate with the States and other communities and interests in carrying out such plans, its share being based upon the value of protection to navigation.
Published: (1916)