Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River and Attributes, 1931-1972
Abstract
The three-volume comprehensive history, The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation, prepared under the direction of Brigadier General T. H. Jackson by Major D. 0. Elliott, Corps of Engineers, traces the Mississippi River Valley's development from earliest times to the year 1931. The account by Brigadier General Harley B. Ferguson entitled History of the Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control, 1932-1939 is less comprehensive, being devoted to a discussion of new steps taken to cure the river's ills by means of cutoffs and corrective dredging. The volume published on 1 June 1935, Bank Protection on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, prepared by Colonel T. H. Jackson, Corps of Engineers, centers on only one aspect of the improvement program. Since 1931, the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project, authorized by Congress in 1928, has been modified and tremendously expanded by direction of Congress. Many betterments have been realized, and much has been learned about the river and how to control it. Important work lies ahead. However, it has seemed appropriate to prepare a record of the effort and accomplishment since 1931 . This needed to be done while there are available key members of the staffs of the offices of the Mississippi River Commission and the U. S. Army Engineer Districts who have intimate knowledge of the project in the intervening years. The task of preparing this account was assigned to Norman R. Moore, a senior member of the planning staff of the Mississippi River Commission, whose knowledge of the project extends over the past 37 years. This is a story of man's ingenuity in overcoming one of the great engineering challenges in our history, the control of the mighty Mississippi River. This is also an account of the work that has resulted in the development of the Lower Mississippi Valley as a vital, productive part of the United States. Reading this history should be interesting to engineers
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1972
- Accession Number
- ADA637059
Entities
People
- Norman R. Moore
Organizations
- Vicksburg District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers