Report Upon the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors in
The Walla Walla, Wash., District

Extract From the Annual Report of the
Chief of Engineers, 1950

Department of the Army
Office of the Chief of Engineers
1951

[The passage below is reprinted from page 8 of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1950]

REQUIREMENTS OF LOCAL COOPERATION FOR FLOOD-CONTROL PROJECTS

Congress in the Flood Control Act approved June 22, 1936, established, and in the amendatory and supplemental general Flood Control Acts approved August 28, 1937, June 28, 1938, August 11, 1939, August 18, 1941, December 22, 1944, July 24, 1946, June 30, 1948, and May 17, 1950, reaffirmed the general policy that flood control throughout the United States is a proper activity of the Federal Government, in cooperation with the States and local communities, and that the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters or their tributaries for flood-control purposes, if such projects are economically justified and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected. Those acts also specified the local cooperation required for the projects authorized therein.

These requirements of local cooperation, in brief are as follows:

(a) Dam and reservoir projects authorized in any of the aforementioned flood-control or river and harbor acts are constructed entirely at the expense of the United States and are maintained and operated by the Corps of Engineers. No local cooperation is required for dam and reservoir projects unless specifically prescribed by special provisions of law.

(b) For local flood-protection projects, except channel improvement or channel rectification projects authorized by the acts of 1936, 1937, and 1938, local interests must provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights of way necessary for the construction of the projects, hold and save the United States free from damages due to the construction works, and maintain and operate all the works after completion in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army. Channel improvement and channel rectification projects authorized by the acts of 1936, 1937, and 1938 are built at Federal expense, and no local cooperation is required. Exceptions to these general rules are provided by law in the case of certain specific projects.

The Walla Walla district, with headquarters at Walla Walla, Wash., was established November 1, 1948, by General Order No. 9, Office, Chief of Engineers, dated September 10, 1948. This district comprises southeastern Washington, exclusive of the watershed of the Columbia River and tributaries above and including the Yakima River, Wash.; all of Idaho, except the northern part and a small southeastern portion; a portion of western Wyoming; a small part of northwestern Utah; part of northeastern Nevada and all of eastern Oregon.

District engineer: Col. Wm. Whipple, Corps of Engineers.

Division engineer of the North Pacific Division, Portland, Oreg., comprising the Portland, Oreg., Seattle, Wash., Walla Walla, Wash., and Alaska districts: Col. Orville E. Walsh, Corps of Engineers.

Improvements

Navigation
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.		 Snake River, Oreg., Wash., and Idaho
McNary Lock and Dam, Columbia River, Oreg.
Umatilla Harbor, Oreg.
Examinations, surveys, and contingencies (general)
Plant allotment
Flood Control
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.

19.
20.
21.
22.		 Columbia River Basin, Local Flood Protection Projects
Jackson Hole, Snake River, Wyo.
Heise-Roberts area, Snake River, Idaho
Lucky Peak Reservoir, Boise River, Idaho
Lewiston-Clarkston levees
Pullman, Palouse River, Wash.
Colfax, Palouse River, Wash.
Mill Creek, Wash.
Milton-Freewater, Walla Walla River, Oreg.
Dayton, Touchet River, Wash.
Pendleton, Umatilla River, Oreg.
Emergency flood control work under authority of Flood Control Act approved July 24, 1946
Emergency flood control work under authority of Public Laws 138 and 318, Seventy-eighth Congress; Public Law 75, Seventy-ninth Congress; and Public Laws 102 and 858, Eightieth Congress
Emergency flood control work under authority of section 205, Public Law 858, Eightieth Congress
Emergency flood control work under authority of the Flood Control Act approved Aug. 18, 1941
Preliminary examinations, surveys, and contingencies for flood control
Inactive flood-control projects

NAVIGATION

1. SNAKE RIVER, OREG., WASH., AND IDAHO

Location. The Snake River, which is the largest tributary of Columbia River, rises in Yellowstone National Park, in the western part of Wyoming, flows in a general westerly direction for about 1,000 miles and empties into Columbia River near Pasco, Wash. 324 miles from the Pacific Ocean. (See U.S. Geological Survey maps of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.)

Previous projects. No formal project for the improvement of Snake River was adopted by Congress prior to the act of June 13, 1902. Subsequent projects were adopted by River and Harbor Acts of June 13, 1902, June 25, 1910 and August 30, 1935. For further details see page 1991 of Annual Report for 1915, page 1849 of Annual Report for 1938 and page 2676 of Annual Report for 1948.

Existing Project. This provides for the construction of such dams as are necessary and open-channel improvement for purpose of providing slack water navigation and irrigation between the mouth of Snake River and Lewiston, Idaho The pool formed by McNary Dam will provide slack water from the mouth of Snake River to mile 9.7. For maintenance purposes the project also provides for any necessary work on the River between Lewiston and Johnson's Bar, Idaho, as authorized under previous projects. No channel dimensions are specified above Lewiston. A system of four dams between the mouth of the Snake River and Lewiston has been approved. The estimated total cost, revised in 1950, including the installation of three power units at each dam is as follows:

Dam 1 Ice Harbor, river mile 9.7 $95,899,000
Dam 2 Lower Monumental, river mile 44.7 86,962,000
Dam 3 Little Goose, river mile 72.2 97,967,000
Dam 4 Lower Granite, river mile 113.1 81,977,000
Total 362,805,000

The estimated annual cost of operation and care of the four locks and dams revised in 1947 is $1,940,000.

The existing project was authorized by the River and Harbor Act approved March 2, 1945. (See H. Doc. 704, 75th Cong., 3d Sess.)

Local Cooperation. No conditions were imposed by law.

Terminal facilities. From the mouth of the Snake River to Riparia, 67 miles, there are no wharves or warehouses on the river banks. From Riparia to Lewiston, Idaho, 73 miles, there are no wharves, but there are public and privately owned warehouses and grain elevators located at Penawawa, mile 91.5, Lewiston, mile 140, Asotin, mile 146 and between Asotin and 11 miles above. Just above Lewiston, mile 140.5, there is a privately owned 40 by 60 foot wharf. On the left bank between Riparia and Lewiston there are several wheat warehouses formerly used for storage of wheat to be transferred to the railroad on the right bank.

Operations and results during fiscal year. No work: Due to lack of funds, work during the year was limited to a small amount of aggregate investigation and completion of a preliminary report on powerhouse design by the architect engineer.

Maintenance: Construction of a wire-bound rock jetty, 250 feet long, at Temperance Creek Rapids between Lewiston and Johnsons Bar, was accomplished by hired labor.

Total costs for the fiscal year amounting to $114,393.35 were as follows:

Description of Work New Work Maintenance
Site selection, lands, and damages (all dam sites) $35,206.11  
Ice Harbor Dam (dam 1) 74,576.07  
Lower Monumental Dam (dam 2) 9.35  
Maintenance of channel between Lewiston and Johnson Bar   $4,601.82
Total $100,791.33 $4,601.82

Total expenditures were $130,092.71 for new work and $4,601.67 for maintenance.

Condition at end of fiscal year. Construction has not been initiated at any of the four dam sites. Design on Ice Harbor Dam is 23 percent complete. Hydraulic-model construction and tests are completed on the first step cofferdam. Plans for dams 2, 3, and 4 are in a preliminary study condition only. Detailed plans on real estate, flowage and relocations covering the four dams have been completed and submitted to higher authority.

Total costs under the existing project have been as follows:

Description of Work New Work Maintenance
Site selection, lands, and damages (all dam sites) $583,536.58  
Ice Harbor Dam (dam 1) 683,882.11  
Lower Monumental Dam (dam 2) 43,105.84  
Maintenance of channel between Lewiston and Johnson Bar   $8,820.81
Total $1,310,584.53 $8,820.81

Total expenditures have been $1,301,751.30 for new work and $8,820.66 for maintenance.

Proposed operations. The funds unexpended June 30, 1950, amounting to $199,647.03, plus an anticipated allotment of $5,000 for maintenance and an anticipated allotment of $87,610.93 for new work, a total of $292,257.96 will be applied as follows:

New work:
Accounts payable 8,781.83
Dam 1 (Ice Harbor) 277,077.90
Continued planning 285,859.63
Total new work 285,859.63
Maintenance:
Accounts payable .15
Construction of construction works and removal of boulders
from channel above Lewiston, Idaho,
by Government plant and hired labor
 6,398.18
Total maintenance 6,398.33
Total All Work 292,257.96

An additional sum of $4,005,000 is needed to be appropriated for the following schedule of work for fiscal year 1952.

New work:
Land acquisition $205,000
Construction of access facilities, water well, sewer, and water-distribution systems, and temporary office building 105,000
Initiation of design and manufacture of turbines and generators 90,000
Initiation of construction by contract of first cofferdam and work therein 3,600,000
Total new work 4,000,000
Maintenance:
Maintenance of channel above Lewiston, Idaho, by Government plant and hired labor 5,000
Total All Work 4,005,000

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 $800,000.00 — $170,000.00 $300,000.00 $225,000.00 $1,934,763.43¹
Cost
 263,035.07 196,130.82 355,716.93 381,865.73 109,791.53 1,745,347.96¹
Expenditures
 269,399.07 241,110.35 358,678.97 302,470.20 130,092.71 1,736,514.73¹
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — 5,000.00 — -780.01 6,000.00 214.946.70
Cost
 — 156.29 4,062.70 — 4,601.82 213,548.52
Expenditures
 — 135.45 4,083.54 — 4,601.67 213,548.37
¹Does not include $85,000.00 contributed funds expended for new work on previous projects.

Other new work data:
Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950 $184,977.58
Appropriated for fiscal year ending June 30, 1951
 87,610.93
Unobligated balance available for fiscal year 1951
 272,588.51
Estimated additional amount needed to be appropriated for completion of existing project
 361,217,389.07

2. McNARY LKOCK AND DAM, COLUMBIA RIVER, OREG.

Location. The site of this project is on the Columbia River, 292 miles above the mouth, near Umatilla, Oreg., and 3 miles above the mouth of the Umatilla River.

Existing Project. This project includes a dam, power plant, navigation lock, and appurtenant facilities for purposes of navigation, power development, and incidental irrigation. The proposed improvement provides principally for the improvement of navigation, creation of pool extending approximately 64 miles upstream to a point about 27 miles above Pasco, Wash. The dam, which will raise the normal water surface approximately 85 feet to elevation 340 mean sea level, will be approximately 7,600 feet long and will consist of an earth dam at the Oregon (south) abutment, a powerhouse, a spillway dam, a navigation lock, and an earth dam at the Washington (north) abutment. Suitable facilities for migrating fish, including fish ladders, will be provided.

The powerhouse installation will comprise 14 units of 70,000 kilowatts each, making a total installed capacity of 980,000 kilowatts.

The spillway dam will be 1,310 feet long and will be located in the north channel of the river. The overflow crest at 291 feet above sea level will be surmounted by 22 spillway gates capable of releasing the design flood of 2,200,000 cubic feet per second. The deck will be at elevation 361 and will provide a service roadway and tracks for the operation of two gantry cranes.

The navigation lock will be a single type and will operate at all flows less than 800,000 cubic feet per second.

The pool created by the spillway dam will provide a navigable channel with depths of 12 feet and over, between McNary Dam and the confluence of the Yakima River, a distance of approximately 43 miles. A controlling depth of 9 feet will be provided on Snake River from its mouth to a point approximately 10.2 miles above.

All structures will be founded on a massive basalt flow that reaches a maximum thickness of 130 feet and directly overlies a sedimentary interbed. The principal data concerning the navigation lock and spillway dam are shown in the following table:

Navigation Lock
Type Single lift
Dimensions:
Net clear width of chamber 86 feet
Net clear length 675 feet
Lift (vertical):
At extreme low water and normal pool 92 feet
At mean annual flow (190,000 cubic feet per second) 84.4 feet
At average maximum flow (550,000 cubic feet per second) 72.3
Depth over miter sill at adopted low water (43,000 cubic feet per second) 12 feet
Depth over upper sill at normal pool (elevation 340) 20 feetD
Character of foundation Basalt flow
Spillway Dam
Over-all length of spillway dam section 1,310
Type of construction Concrete gravity
Elevation spillway crest 291 feet above mean sea level
Elevation deck 361 feet above mean sea level
Height, maximum (foundation to deck) 158 feet
Type of control Fixed wheel segmental lift gates
Number of gates 22
Size of gates 50 by 53 feet
Stilling basin type Concrete apron with baffles
Normal pool elevation 340 feet above mean sea level
Maximum pool elevation 356.5 feet above mean sea level
Maximum spillway capacity at normal pool elevation 1,480,000 cubic feet per second
Maximum spillway capacity at maximum pool elevation 2,200,000 cubic feet per second

The estimated cost of the dam, navigation lock, 14-power unit generating installation, fishways, and attendant buildings and grounds, revised in 1950, is $270,000,000.

The existing project was authorized by the River and Harbor Act approved March 2, 1945. (See H. Doc. 704, 75th Cong., 3d Sess.)

Operations and results during fiscal year. Washington shore contract was nearly completed during the fiscal year, involving construction of navigation lock with guidewalls, 13½ bays of spillway with apron and baffles, nonoverflow-dam section, partial construction of right-abutment fill and Washington shore fishladder. First step cofferdam was removed in April 1950.

Oregon shore contract was awarded in August 1949. During the fiscal year, the Oregon shore cofferdam was completed, rock excavation for assembly bay and two power units was completed, and contractor's plant for concrete was completed and ready for production.

Preliminary work was done for second step cofferdam to the extent of placing eight rockfilled cribs in the Washington Channel, a 75-foot square rockfilled crib on Artesian Island for cableway foundation, four cells in Oregon Channel, cable way tower was erected on Oregon shore, and left-abutment fill was brought up to elevation 310.

Contracts were awarded for spillway cranes, powerhouse cranes, bascule bridge across lock, turbines Nos. 5 to 8, generators Nos. 5 to 8, lock-miter gates and for miscellaneous equipment.

Work was initiated on two contracts for construction of a 17.8 mile section and a 11.6 mile section of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway including roadway grading on the Washington shore of McNary Reservoir. Approximately 2,761,000 cubic yards of material were excavated and 2,017,000 cubic yards of embankment were placed. Construction was initiated by contract for the relocation of a 11.4 mile section of the Union Pacific Railroad and a 11.1 mile section of U.S. Highways Nos. 730 and 395. Approximately 1,546,000 cubic yards of material were excavated and 1,169,000 cubic yards of embankment placed.

Contract for Richland levees was awarded and completed during the fiscal year.

Contracts were awarded in June for construction of Richland pumping plants and for construction of railroad and highway bridges at Juniper Canyon and Spring Gulch.

Contract plans and specifications for the completion contract of McNary Lock and Dam are well advanced, with submittal to higher authority scheduled for November 1950, advertising for bids in February 1951, and award of contract on May 1, 1951.

Total costs for fiscal year were $36,791,572.86, for all new work. Expenditures were $36,142,060.90.

Condition at end of fiscal year. Construction of the existing project, which was started May 5, 1947, is now approximately 21 percent complete. Washington Shore Contract is 95 percent complete with 775,000 cubic yards of concrete in place.

Oregon Shore Contract is 20 percent complete with 300,000 cubic yards of rock excavated.

Contract for 17.8 miles of S. P. & S. Railroad is 43 percent complete. Approximately 1,926,000 cubic yards of material has been excavated and 1,026,000 cubic yards of embankment has been placed.

Contract for 11.6 miles of S. P. & S. Railroad is 40 percent complete with 835,000 cubic yards of material excavated and 991,000 cu7bic yards of embankment placed.

Contract for 11.4 miles of U. P. Railroad is 30 percent complete with 1,546,000 cubic yards of material excavated and 1,169,000 cubic yards of embankment placed.

Construction of Richland levees has been completed. Contracts have been awarded for construction of Richland pumping plants and construction of railroad and highway bridges at Juniper Canyon and Spring Gulch.

Total costs have been $58,377,168.16. Expenditures have been $57,542,603.04.

Proposed operations. The funds unexpended June 30, 1950, in the amount of $15,032,396.96, plus an anticipated allotment of $39,610,000, a total of $54,642,396.96, will be applied to new work as follows:

Accounts payable $2,718,693.93
Engineering, hired labor 1,479,831.00
Engineering, contracts 70,169.00
Lands 3,898,810.00
Operations of facilities 3,898,810.00
Miscellaneous items of construction by hired labor 89,000.00
Supply contracts:
Powerhouse equipment (governing equipment, hydraulic turbines, generators, transformers, control equipment, station services switch gear, cranes, etc.) 6,285,475.03
Equipment and material for lock, spillway and fishways (sheet-steel piling, slide gates and operating machinery, gantry cranes, tainter valves and operating machinery, culvert bulkheads and trash racks, spillway gates, derricks, miter gates and stop logs, bascule bridges, etc.) 1,852,000.00
Construction of a portion of navigation lock, abutment, fishways, spillway, dam, etc., by contract 1,119,418.00
Construction of second-step cofferdam, substructure for two main units, station-service bay and assembly bay of powerhouse, and portion of Oregon shore fishways, by contract 12,980,000.00
Construction of McNary powerhouse, spillway, Oregon shore fishladder, and appurtenant structures 1,371,000.00
Construction of McNary levees, by contract 610,000.00
Relocation of railroads, highways, and utilities, by several contracts 20,803,000.00
Buildings and grounds 620,000.00
Total 54,642,396.96

An additional sum of $46,000,000 is needed to be appropriated for the following schedule of work during the fiscal 1952.

Engineering $1,000,000
Continuing contract for completion of spillway, powerhouse, abutments, and fish passing facilities 20,221,000
Construction of McNary levees 5,050,000
Continue manufacture of equipment for powerhouse 8,953,000
Continue land acquisition 3,000,000
Continue relocations 5,697,000
Buildings and grounds, by contract 630,000
Continue ferry operation, camp maintenance, school facilities, etc. 500,000
Miter gates, spillway gates, bascule bridge, valves, cranes, derricks, miscellaneous equipment 949,000
Total 46,000,000

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 $3,000,000.00 — $4,500,000.00 $30,000,000.00 $35,000,000.00 $72,575,000.00
Cost
 410,329.50 906,053.22 5,96,213.69 14,336,311.20 36,791,572.86 58,377,108.16
Expenditures
 434,473.83 918,401.46 5,935,626.15 14,112,040.70 36,142,060.90 57,542,603.04
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -— — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —

Other new work data:
Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950 —
Appropriated for fiscal year ending June 30, 1951 $39,610,000
Unobligated balance available for fiscal year 1951 39,610,000
Estimated additional amount needed to be appropriated for completion of existing project 157,815,000

3. UMATILLA HARBOR, OREGON

Location. This harbor is located on the Columbia River at Umatilla Oreg., 289 miles above the mouth of the same river and 3 miles downstream from McNary Dam.

Existing Project. This provides for clearing the harbor area of all shoals to a depth of 7½ feet below low water from the channel to a line which generally follows the present 7-foot depth contour. This line would extend downstream channelward across the shoal area above the mouth of the Umatilla River.

The existing project was authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act approved May 17, 1950 (Public Law 516, 81st Cong., 2d sess.).

The estimated cost revised in 1950 is $479,000 for construction. The estimated annual cost of maintenance and operation revised in 1950 is $1,100.

Local Cooperation. The River and Harbor Act approved March 2, 1945, provides that local interests furnish, free of cost to the United States, all lands, easements, rights-of-way, and spoil-disposal areas for initial work and for subsequent maintenance as required, and hold and save the United States free from damages due to the construction works and subsequent maintenance. Local interests will repair existing terminal facilities and construct new dock and terminal facilities costing $235,000. Local interests are required to furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that adequate terminal facilities open to all on equal and equitable terms would be provided.

Terminal facilities. There are no wharves, but there is a terminal where barges are moored close in without the benefit of a shore structure for unloading. There are three tank farms for storage of petroleum products and a cooperative grain elevator adjacent to the harbor.

The port of Umatilla has proposed construction of a dock and terminal facilities.

Operations and results during fiscal year. None. There were no costs or expenditures during the fiscal year.

Condition at end of fiscal year. No work has been done on this project. There have been no cost or expenditures.

Proposed operations. No work is scheduled for fiscal years 1951 and 1952.

4. EXAMINATIONS, SURVEYS, AND CONTINGENCIES (GENERAL)

The total cost of work during the fiscal year was $26,114.92. Expenditures were $25,368.10. The funds unexpended June 30, 1950, amounting to $3,501.36, plus an anticipated allotment of $20,000, will be applied to accounts payable and to contingencies features of work under this heading during fiscal year 1951.

The additional sum of $30,000 can be profitably expended during fiscal year 1952 for contingencies.

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 — — — — — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -$20,300.00 $16,000.00 $36,300.00
Cost
 — — — 7,095.76 26,114.92 33,210.68
Expenditures
 — — — 7,430.54 25,368.10 32,798.64

5. PLANT ALLOTMENT, WALLA WALLA, WASH., DISTRICT

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 — — — — $— —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — $-973,082.71 $669,471.56 -$303,611.15
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -— — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Other new work data: Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950 $200,402.54

Status of All Investigations for Navigation Called For
By River and Harbor Acts and Committee Resolutions
Locality Authorization Act Date
Transmitted
To Congress		 Document
No.		 Recommendation
Clearwater, Snake, and Salmon Rivers, Oreg. and Idaho (supp. 308 report). Sec. 6, River and Harbor Act, Aug. 30, 1935. — — —
Columbia and Snake Rivers, Oreg., Wash., and Idaho, for further improvement in the vicinity of Umatilla, Oreg. Senate Public Works Committee resolution, Jan. 28, 1947. — — —
Salmon, Snake, and Clearwater Rivers, Oreg. and Idaho (supp. 308 report). Sec. 6, River and Harbor Act, Aug. 30, 1935. — — —
Snake and Columbia Rivers, Oreg., Wash., and Idaho for further improvement in the vicinity of Umatilla, Oreg. Senate Public Works Committee resolution, Jan. 28, 1947. — — —
Snake, Clearwater, and Salmon Rivers, Oreg. and Idaho (supp. 308 report). Sec. 6, River and Harbor act, Aug. 30, 1935. — — —
Umatilla, Oreg., for further improvement of the Columbia and Snake Rivers, Oreg., Wash., and Idaho, in vicinity of. Senate Public Works Committee resolution, Jan. 28, 1947. — — —

6. Columbia River Basin, Local Flood Protection Projects, Walla Walla District

Location. The improvements included in this project are located along the Columbia River and its tributaries within the confines of the Walla Walla, Wash., district.

Existing Project. The Flood Control Act approved May 17, 1950, approved a general comprehensive plan for the Columbia River Basin for flood control and other purposes as set forth in House Document 531, Eighty-First Congress, second session, and authorized to be appropriated the sum of $75,000,000 for the partial accomplishment of those projects. Of this authorization, an amount not to exceed $15,000,000 was authorized for local flood-protection works in the Columbia River Basin, the individual projects to be selected by the Chief of Engineers with the approval of the Secretary of the Army.

Local Cooperation. Section 3 of the Flood Control Act approved June 22, 1936, as amended, applies to all the flood-control projects.

Operations and results during fiscal year. None. There were no costs or expenditures during the fiscal year.

Condition at end of fiscal year. No work has been done under this project. There have been no costs and no expenditures.

Proposed operations. No work is scheduled for fiscal year 1951. A sum of $150,000 can be profitably expended during fiscal year 1952 to cover costs of investigations and reports to definitely establish engineering and economic feasibility at local flood-protection projects.

7. Jackson Hole, Snake River, Wyo.

Location. This project is located on both banks of the Snake River in the vicinity of Wilson, Wyo.

Existing Project. The plan of improvement provides for a levee with full riprap protection on the right bank, extending from a knoll at the Circle H Ranch, which is approximately 9.2 miles upstream from the Jackson-Wilson highway bridge, to a point approximately 2.5 miles below the same bridge, a total length of 11.7 miles; also a levee with full riprap protection along the left bank, extending approximately 0.9 of a mile immediately upstream from the Jackson-Wilson highway bridge. The existing project was authorized by the Flood Control Act approved May 17, 1950 (Public Law 516, 81st Cong., 2d sess.). The estimated cost revised in 1950 is $1,664,000 for construction. The costs of rights-of-way are to be paid by local interests.

Local Cooperation. Section 3 of the Flood Control Act approved June 22, 1936, as amended, applies.

Operations and results during fiscal year. None. There were no costs or expenditures during the fiscal year.

Condition at end of fiscal year. No work has been done on this project. There have been no costs and no expenditures.

Proposed operations. No work is scheduled for fiscal year 1951. The sum of $25,000 can be profitably expended during fiscal year 1952 for detailed planning.

8. Heise-Roberts Area, Snake River, Idaho

Location. This project is located on both banks of the Snake River between the towns of Heise and Roberts in eastern portion of Idaho, approximately 20 miles northeast of Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Existing Project. This provides for channel improvement of the Snake River at selected points between Heise and Roberts, Idaho, by channel clearing, alignment changes, levee construction and bank protection works. This work is a part of a multipurpose project on the Snake River, Idaho, which also includes the construction of the Palisades Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation for operation in the combined interest of flood control, irrigation, and power.

The existing project was authorized by Flood Control Act approved December 22, 1944 (H. Doc. 452, 77th Cong., 1st sess.). The estimate of cost, made in 1948, is $1,490,000 for construction. The cost of lands and damages is to be paid by local interests.

Local Cooperation. See page 8 for requirements. Assurances of local cooperation have been furnished.

Operations and results during fiscal year. Construction was completed by contract at three locations: Raising and widening levees on the left bank of Snake River from station 203 downstream to station 420; construction of levee and bank protection on left bank of Snake River from Heise Bridge to the East Belt railroad bridge and on the right bank of Snake River from Sunnydell Irrigation District headgate to station 25+00, and construction of a dumped-stone revetment along the left bank of the Snake River at Lowder Slough from station 229+87.5 to station 243+-87.5. Two stockpiles were constructed, one at Lowder Slough and one at Lorenzo Bridge. Construction of levee and bank protection between stations 752 and 934 is in progress.

Total costs for the fiscal year were $207,792.18, all for new work. Expenditures were $209,383.56.

Condition at end of fiscal year. Construction has been completed at 14 locations and work is in progress at one other location. The remaining work required to complete the project consists of construction of levees, slough blocks, and dumped-stone revetment on the left bank of the Snake River from station 870 and 975 and the revetment of unrevetted levees at several locations. The project as a whole is approximately 88 percent complete.

Total costs have been $1,306,391.14 for new work. Expenditures have been $1,299,675.28.

Proposed operations. The funds unexpended June 30, 1950, including accounts receivable amounting to $193,221.37, will be applied to new work as follows and will complete the project.

Accounts payable $12,492.00
Complete construction of levee and bank protection and revetting of unrevetted levees 180,729.37
Total 193,221.37

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 $250,000.00 — $5,000.00 $351,000.00 $340,000.00 $1,490,000.00
Cost
 27,103.36 $78,492.06 539,252.80 453,750.74 207,792.18 1,306,391.14
Expenditures
 23,423.68 78,257.70 519,916.47 468,693.87 209,383.56 1,299,675.28
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -— — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Other new work data: Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950 $73,917.19

9. Lucky Peak Reservoir, Boise River, Idaho

Location. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho approximately 9 miles southeast of the city of Boise, and approximately 12 miles downstream from Arrowrock Reservoir.

Existing Project. The plan of improvement provides for construction of a rolled earth-fill dam approximately 250 feet high and 1,700 feet long at the crest, with a reservoir providing a total storage, at normal pool level, of 306,000 acre-feet. The spillway will be located on the left abutment and will be designed to pass 123,000 cubic feet per second at maximum pool. Its discharge will be controlled by automatically operated tainter gates. The outlet works are to be located on the left abutment and consists of a tunnel controlled by Howell-Bunger valves.

The plan contemplates the joint use of storage in Lucky Peak, Arrowrock, and Anderson Ranch Reservoirs. Operations of the dam as a flood-control facility will be by the Department of the Army under the direction of the Secretary of the Army with the understanding that complete or partial joint use of the storage in the three reservoirs may be undertaken at such time as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Interior, and local interests concerned with flood control and use of irrigation water. The existing project was authorized by the Flood Control Act approved July 24, 1946. The latest (1950) approved estimated project cost is $22,000,000.

Local Cooperation. Section 2 of the Flood Control Act approved June 28, 1938, applies.

Operations and results during fiscal year. A contract was awarded for the construction of an outlet tunnel, including excavation for an inlet channel, intake structure, and outlet structure, and has progressed to 51 percent of completion. Excavation for the outlet portal was completed and 925 feet of the tunnel has been excavated. A second contract was awarded for the construction of a diversion channel, cofferdams, main dam and spillway. Construction of this contract was initiated in June 1950. Under an agreement between the Corps of Engineers and the State of Idaho, that organization has awarded the first contract for the highway relocations entailed with the construction of this project. Design of a bridge over Mores Creek in connection with the relocations of the highway is 30 percent complete. Contract plans and specifications were prepared on two phases of the dam. Model studies have been initiated on the outlet manifold. Total costs for the fiscal year were $1,099,374.91, all for new work. Expenditures were $921,826.90, all for new work.

Condition at end of fiscal year. Construction is in progress on the outlet tunnel and the diversion channel. Excavation for the outlet portal has been completed and 925 feet of the tunnel has been excavated. Relocation of Idaho State Highway No. 21 is now in progress and is being accomplished by the State of Idaho on a cost reimbursable basis under an agreement between the Corps of Engineers and the State of Idaho. Total costs have been $1,597,285.55, for all new work.

Expenditures have been $1,458,111.56, all for new work.

Proposed operations. The funds unexpended June 30, 1950, including accounts receivable amounting to $2,328,560.05, plus an anticipated allotment of $2,400,000.00 during fiscal year 1951, a total of $4,728,560.05, will be applied to new work as follows:

Accounts payable $147,174.31
Engineering hired labor 335,904.00
Engineering contracts 39,541.00
Acquisition of reservoir lands 374,299.00
Construction of outlet tunnel by contract 929,835.00
Construction of embankment by contract 1,298,984.00
Relocations 1,298,984.00
Total 4,728,560.05

An additional sum of $6,250,000 can be profitably expended for the following schedule of work for fiscal year 1952.

Engineering $175,000
Continue construction of embankment by contract 1,300,000
Construction of spillway, intake, and control 850,000
Relocations 3,768,000
Revisions to Arrowrock Dam 50,000
Miscellaneous construction by contract 107,000
Total 6,250,000

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 — — $190,000.00 $590,000.00 $3,000,000.00 $3,780,000.00
Cost
 — — 158,065.85 339,844.79 1,099,374.91 1,597,285.55
Expenditures
 — — 152,867.01 383,417.65 921,826.90 1,458,111.56
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -— — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Other new work data:
Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950
 $6,671.61
Appropriated for fiscal year ending June 30, 1951
 2,400,000.00
Unobligated balance available for fiscal year 1951
 2,406,671.61
Estimated additional amount needed to be appropriated for completion of existing project
 15,820,000.00

10. Lewiston-Clarkston Levees

Location. This project is located on the Clearwater and Snake Rivers in and adjacent to the cities of Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Wash.

Existing Project. This plan of improvement provides for levees at Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Wash., at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake Rivers. The levees at Lewiston are located on both banks of the Clearwater River and the right bank of the Snake River, and the levees at Clarkston are located on the left bank of the Snake River. In restricted locations adjoining the Lewiston business area concrete flood walls may replace levees.

The existing project was authorized by the River and Harbor Act approved March 2, 1945. The estimated project cost revised in 1950 is $3,254,000.

Local Cooperation. None required.

Operations and results during fiscal year. None. There were no costs or expenditures during the fiscal year.

Condition at end of fiscal year. Work has not been initiated on this project. There have been no costs or expenditures.

Proposed operations. No work is scheduled for the fiscal years 1951 and 1952.

11. Pullman, Palouse River, Wash.

Location. This project is located on South Fork of Palouse River at Pullman in eastern Washington.

Existing Project. This provides for flood control at Pullman, Wash., by the improvement of the channel of the South Fork of Palouse River, the construction of levees, raising existing flood and retaining wall, and revetment work.

The latest (1950) approved estimate of cost for new work, is $1,220,000 for construction. The cost of lands and damages is to be paid by local interests.

The existing project was authorized by the Flood Control Act approved December 22, 1944 (H. Doc. 888, 77th Cong., 2d sess.).

Local Cooperation. See page 8 for requirements. In addition to the usual requirements, local interests are required to accomplish at their own expense the street, railroad, and bridge modifications necessary for the construction of the project.

Operations and results during fiscal year. Work was continued intermittently on preparation of detailed project plans. Total costs for the fiscal year were $11,113.49, all for new work. Expenditures were $10,670.16.

Condition at end of fiscal year. No construction work has been done, but preliminary planning is about 75 percent complete. Detailed project plans are being prepared and are scheduled to be submitted to higher authority in September 1950.

Total costs have been $35,545.67 for new work. Expenditures have been $35,026.67.

Proposed operations. The funds unexpended June 30, 1950, amounting to $10,973.33, plus an anticipated allotment of $15,000, a total of $25,973.33 will be applied to accounts payable and completion of detailed project plans.

No work is scheduled for fiscal year 1952.

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 $5,000.00 — — $10,000.00 $11,000.00 $46,000.00
Cost
 $8,334.72 $144.88 $2,914.09 12,986.89 11,113.49 35,545.67
Expenditures
 — — 2,840.73 12,986.89 11,113.49 35,026.67
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -— — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Other new work data:
Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950
 $10,373.33
Appropriated for fiscal year ending June 30, 1951
 15,000.00
Unobligated balance available for fiscal year 1951
 25,373.33
Estimated additional amount needed to be appropriated for completion of existing project
 1,159,000.00

12. Colfax, Palouse River, Wash.

Location. This project is located on the Palouse River and the South Fork of the Palouse River at and adjacent to their confluence and on Spring Flat Creek in eastern Washington.

Existing Project. This provides for flood-control works in the vicinity of and through Colfax, Wash., by channel enlargement and modification, levees, flood walls, and revetments. The estimate of cost revised in 1950, is $2,162,000 for construction. The cost of lands and damages is to be paid by local interests.

The existing project was authorized by the Flood Control Act approved December 22, 1944 (H. Doc. 888, 77th Cong., 2d sess.).

Local Cooperation. See page 8 for requirements. In addition to the usual requirements, local interests are required to accomplish at their own expense the street, railroad, and bridge modifications necessary for the construction of the project.

Operations and results during fiscal year. Engineering studies of alternative types of revetment in connection with contract plans and specifications were initiated. Total costs for the fiscal year were $4,585.74. Expenditures were $4,443.99.

Condition at end of fiscal year. No construction work has been done. Detailed project plans have been submitted to higher authority.

Proposed operations. The funds unexpended June 30, 1950, amounting to $10,556.00, plus an anticipated allotment of $4,000 in fiscal year 1951, will be applied to accounts payable and initiation of contract plans and specifications.

No work is scheduled for fiscal year 1952.

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 $5,000.00 — $10,000.00 $15,000.00 $25,000.00 $80,000.00
Cost
 $25,120,78 $-33.41 $5,760.57 $24,113.86 $4,585.74 $59,585.74
Expenditures
 $24,450.32 $675.25 $5,571.96 $24,302.47 $4,443.39 $59,443.99
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -— — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Other new work data:
Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950
 $14,556.01
Unobligated balance available for fiscal year 1951
 $14,556.01
Estimated additional amount needed to be appropriated for completion of existing project
 $2,088,000.00/TD>

13. Mill Creek, Wash.

Location. Near Walla Walla, Wash., on Mill Creek, a tributary of the Walla Walla River.

Existing Project. The plan of improvement provides for construction of flood-control works consisting of a storage dam, outlet works, diversion works, division structures and improvement of a stretch of Mill Creek Channel, including the reconstruction of the Otis and Merriam Street Bridges across Mill Creek in the city of Walla Walla, Wash.

The storage dam, which will form a reservoir of 6,000 acre-feet capacity, is a rolled earth fill structure 145 feet high, 3,200 feet long at the crest, and 800 feet wide at the base. Flood water is diverted storage by means of diversion work on Mill Creek consisting of a rolled earth fill dam 1,700 feet long and 20 feet high, with a concrete spillway section and headworks at the left abutment, and a concrete-lined canal leading from the headworks to the storage reservoir. Stored water is subsequently released through outlet works consisting of a steel-lined concrete conduit through the base of the storage dam and a canal 5,900 feet in length from the dam to Mill creek. The normal flow of water past the diversion works is apportioned, by means of two concrete division structures, to the three delta streams, Yellowhawk, Garrison, and Mill Creek. The project will control the entire Mill Creek drainage area of 85 square miles and care for a flood of 11,400 second-feet. The existing project was authorized by the Flood Control Act approved June 28, 1938. The Flood Control Act approved August 18, 1941, modified the project in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 719, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session. The estimated cost, revised in 1948, is $2,270,685 for construction and $133,215 for lands and damages, a total of $2,403,900.

Local Cooperation. For the project, except for Mill Creek through the city of Walla Walla, section 2 of the Flood Control Act approved June 28, 1938, applies. For the section of Mill Creek through the city of Walla Walla, Wash., local interests will provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for construction of the project, and hold and save the United States free from claims for damages resulting from improvement. Assurances of compliance with these requirements received from local interests were approved by the Division Engineer, March 2, 1948. Local interests have contributed $80,000 toward the cost of channel improvement through the city of Walla Walla.

Operations and results during fiscal year. New work: None.

Maintenance: Ordinary maintenance and repairs were continued. Reservoir regulation was routine and stream flow was normal. Work is now under way on a test fill of the reservoir.

Improvements and reconstruction consisting of installation of seepage-relief wells, grouting of interior drains, compaction of reservoir area, and repairs to the auxiliary outlet channel were accomplished by hired labor and a sluice gate was installed by contract.

Total costs for the fiscal year were $233,128.59, of which $36,432.79 was new work and $196,695.80 for maintenance. Expenditures were $61,745.21, of which $36,324.37 was for new work and $25,420.84 for maintenance.

Condition at end of fiscal year. The construction of the dam and appurtenant works was completed in 1942. An auxiliary outlet canal from the dam to Russell Creek and construction of additional drainage facilities at the toe of the dam were completed in 1944. Paving of the channel through the city of Walla Walla was completed in 1948. Compaction of reservoir area, installation of seepage-relief wells, grouting of interior drains and installation of a new sluice gate were completed in 1949 and 1950.

Total costs have been $2,482,975.56, of which $2,158,144.58 was for new work and $324,830.98 for maintenance. Expenditures have been $2,474,135.38, of which $2,157,960.10 was for new work. In addition, costs and expenditures for new work from contributed funds amounted to $80,000.

Proposed operations. The funds unexpended June 30, including accounts receivable amounting to $144,388.30, plus an anticipated allotment of $13,000 for maintenance, a total of $157,388.30, will be applied as follows:

Accounts payable 184.48
Installation of piezometers along Mill Creek Channel 3,000.00
Reserve for damage claims or flowage easements for seepage areas below the dam 5,750.08
Available for revocation and reallotment to other flood-control projects 90,700.00
Total new work 99,634.56

Accounts payable 8,684.72
Operation 1,300,000
Maintenance of grounds and structures 850,000
Weed control 3,768,000
Reservoir operation studies 50,000
Cooperative stream gaging 107,000
Reading piezometers 1,000.00
Completion of improvements and reconstruction 28,419.02
Total Maintenance 57,753.74
Total All Work 157,388.30

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 $125,500.00 -15,000.00 — $559,900.00 $58,800.00 $2,257,594.66¹
Cost
 1,247.85 5,191.37 $19,168.70 592,819.58 36,432.79 2,158,144.58¹
Expenditures
 1,238.45 5,092.65 36,876.68 575,143.66 36,324.37 2,157,960.10¹
Maintenance
Appropriated
 15,000.00 — 17,500.00 251,000.00 18,000.00 300,900.00
Cost
 11,216.72 11,119.68 11,922.65 50,288.63 196,695.80 324,830.98
Expenditures
 11,972.78 11,597.90 12,076.40 213,059.09 25,420.84 316,175.28
Other new work data:
Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950
 $99,103.16
1Does not include $80,000 Contributed funds expended for new work.

14. Milton-Freewater, Walla Walla River, Oreg.

Location. On both banks of the Walla Walla River between Joe West and McCoy Bridges in the vicinity of Freewater and Milton, Oreg., 8 miles south of Walla Walla, Wash.

Existing project. The plan of improvement provides for channel rectification and improvement of approximately 7 miles of Walla Walla River in the vicinity of the towns of Milton and Freewater, Oreg. The lower 5.3 miles, between McCoy Bridge and the Milton power plant, will be protected by levees with necessary revetment and channel improvement designed for a flood of 18,600 cubic feet per second. The upper 1.7 miles, extending from the Milton power plant upstream to Joe West Bridge, will be improved by some channel clearing and rectification. The existing project was authorized by the Flood Control Act approved August 18, 1941, House Document 719, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session. The estimate of cost revised in 1950 is $1,015,000 for construction and $59,600 for lands and damages to be paid by local interests. The project will provide protection for the towns of Milton and Freewater and for other lower-lying areas in the Walla Walla River Valley from Milton, Oreg., to McCoy bridge against floods with a discharge about two times as great as that of the maximum flood of record, which occurred in 1931.

Local Cooperation. See page 8 for requirements. Assurances of local cooperation have been furnished. Local interests have contributed $6,300 to cover the cost of their portion of diversion structures.

Operations and results during fiscal year. Construction of levee and channel improvement were completed by contract on the right bank of the Walla Walla River from station 183+00 downstream to the Fair Street Bridge and on the left bank from the Union Street Bridge downstream to the Nursery Bridge. Surfacing of levees from station 183+00 to station 275+00 was completed. Construction of levee and channel improvement from station 108+00 to station 183+00 and station 274+00 to station 398+00 is in progress. Total costs for the fiscal year were $388,853.04, all for new work. Expenditures were $186,334.38. In addition, costs and expenditures for new work from contributed funds amounted to $2,300.

Condition at end of fiscal year. Construction of levee and channel improvement has been completed by contract on the right bank of the Walla Walla River from station 183+00 to Fair Street Bridge, and on the left bank from the Union Street Bridge to the Nursery Bridge. Surfacing of levees from station 183+00 to station 275+00 has been completed. Construction of levee and channel improvement from station 108+00 to station 183+00, and station 274+00 to 398+00 is in progress. Remaining work consists of levee and channel improvement from the upstream limit of the project to station 108+00. The project as a whole is approximately 45 percent complete. Total costs have been $487,455.84 for new work. Expenditures have been $460,438.63.

In addition, costs and expenditures for new work from contributed funds amounted to $2,300.

Proposed operations. The funds unexpended June 30, 1950, amounting to $558,561.37 including $4,000 contributed funds, will be applied to new work as follows:

Accounts payable 27,017.21
Construction of levee and channel improvement 531,544.16
Total $558,561.37

Cost and Financial Summary
United States Funds
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 — — — $300,000.00 $640,000.00 $1,015,000.00
Cost
 12,311.03 $2,037.50 $5,528.53 49,542.26 388,853.04 487,455.84
Expenditures
 12,222.61 2,223.28 5,410.53 225,161.71 186,334.38 460,438.63
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -— — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Other new work data:
Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950
 $206,283.39

Cost and Financial Summary
Contributed Funds
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 — — — — $6,300.00 $6,300.00
Cost
 — — — — 2,300.00 2,300.00
Expenditures
 — — — — 2,300.00 2,300.00
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -— — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —

15. Dayton, Touchet River, Wash.

Location. On both banks of the Touchet River through the city of Dayton, 25 miles northeast of Walla Walla, Wash.

Existing Project. The plan of improvement provides for the construction of earth and gravel levees and enlargement and straightening of the channel through the city of Dayton, Wash. The project will provide protection for the city of Dayton against floods with a discharge more than 1.5 times as great as that of the maximum flood of record which occurred in 1931. The existing project was authorized by the Flood Control Act of August 18, 1941. The latest (1950) approved estimate of cost is $472,000 for construction and $10,000 for lands and damages to be paid for by local interests.

Local Cooperation. See page 8 for requirements. Assurances of local cooperation have not yet been requested.

Operations and results during fiscal year. None. There were no costs or expenditures during the fiscal year.

Condition at end of fiscal year. No construction work has been done. Contract plans and specifications are complete, but require extensive revision due to recent channel changes.

Proposed operations. The funds unexpended June 30, 1950, amounting to $4,236.01 for new work are unallocated.

No work is scheduled for fiscal year 1952.

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 $5,000.00 —$700.00 $5,000.00 — — $20,300.00
Cost
 12,635.52 124.75 666.49 $141.28 — 16,063.99
Expenditures
 12,875.35 190.41 662.49 145.28 — 10,063.99
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -— — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Other new work data:
Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950
 $4,236.01
Estimated additional amount needed to be appropriated for completion of existing project
 455,936.00

16. Pendleton, Umatilla River, Oreg.

Location. This project is located on the Umatilla River in and adjacent to the city of Pendleton, Oreg.

Existing Project. The plan of improvement provides for a levee system in the Riverside area upstream from the Pendleton city limits; improvements of the channel, and strengthening the existing levees through the city of Pendleton, and raising, rehabilitating, and extending existing levees in the State Hospital area. The existing project was authorized by the Flood Control Act approved May 17, 1950 (Public Law 516, 81st Cong., 2d sess.). The estimated cost, revised in 1950, is $528,000 for construction. The costs of rights-of-way, utility relocations, and a reconstruction or irrigation diversions are to be paid by local interests. The project will provide protection against a flood of 25,000 second-feet in the Umatilla River through and adjacent to Pendleton, Oreg.

Local Cooperation. Section 3 of the Flood Control Act approved June 22, 1936, as amended, applies. In addition to the usual requirements, local interests are required to accomplish, at their own expense, any utility relocations and irrigation diversions necessary for the construction of the project. A cash contribution of $11,000 will be made by local interests.

Operations and results during fiscal year. None. There were no costs or expenditures during the fiscal year.

Condition at end of fiscal year. Work has not been initiated on the project. There have been no costs or expenditures.

Proposed operations. No work is scheduled for fiscal year 1951. A sum of $25,000 can be profitably expended during fiscal year 1952 for detailed planning.

17. Emergency Flood-Control Work Under Authority of the Flood Control Act Approved July 24, 1946

The Flood Control Act approved July 24, 1946, authorized the allotment of $1,000,000 per year for construction of emergency bank-protection works to prevent flood damage to highways, bridge approaches, and public works; provided, that not more than $50,000 shall be allotted for this purpose at any single locality from the appropriations for any one fiscal year.

Funds previously allotted amounted to $55,600. No funds were allotted during the fiscal year, but $11,807.03 was revoked.

Operations during the fiscal year consisted of completion of a dumped-stone revetment on the Boise River, Broadway Bridge location.

Total costs during the fiscal year were $10,473.44. Expenditures were $18,534.73, all for new work.

The funds unexpended June 30, 1950, amounting to $5,079.02, will be applied to accounts payable and the balance of $50.00 will be revoked.

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 — — — $55,600.00 —$11,807.03 $43,792.97
Cost
 — — — 28,290.51 10,473.44 38,763.95
Expenditures
 — — — 20,179.22 18,534.73 38,713.95
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -— — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Other new work data:
Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950
 $4,929.02

18. Emergency Flood-Control Work Under Authority of Public Laws 138 and 318, Seventy-Eighth Congress; Public Law 75, Seventy-Ninth Congress;

and Public Laws 102 and 858, Eightieth Congress

Because of the heavy demands for emergency-repair work to flood-control structures damaged or destroyed by the disastrous floods which occurred in the spring of 1943, 1944, and 1948, Congress, in the act approved July 12, 1943, Public Law 138, Seventy-eighth Congress, in the act approved June 5, 1945, Public Law 75, Seventy-ninth Congress, in the act approved June 23, 1947, Public Law 102, Eightieth Congress, and in act approved June 30, 1948, Public Law 858, Eightieth Congress, authorized the amounts of $10,000,000, $12,000,000, $12,000,000, $15,000,000, and $25,000,000, respectively, to be appropriated as emergency funds to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers for the repair, restoration, and strengthening of levees and other flood-control works which had been threatened or destroyed by recent floods or which may be threatened or destroyed by later floods.

In addition to funds in the amount of $1,636,28.58 previously allotted, funds in the amount of $136,512.84 were allotted during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, for emergency-repair work pursuant to the act approved June 30, 1948.

Operations during the fiscal year included emergency-repair work which was completed at the following locations: Boise River at Lee Look and Strunk Stillwell locations; Clearwater River, at Kooskia and North Lewiston, Snake River at Henrys Fork, river mile 820-831; Youngstrom, Hansen, Gunderson, Mattson-Craig, Menan, and Bannock Jim Slough locations, Idaho; and Jackson Hole, Wilson area, Wyo.; Catherine Creek at Union, Oreg., and Whitebird Creek, Whitebird, Idaho.

Emergency repair work will be initiated by contract in July at Falk Bridge location, Payette River, Idaho.

Bids will be opened in October 1950 for channel restoration and bank protection on the Touchet River at Dayton, Wash.

Total costs during the fiscal year were $182,721.75. Expenditures were $475,716.18. Total costs to June 30, 1950, have been $1,601,172.01. Expenditures have been $1,561,488.89.

The funds unexpended June 30, 1949, amounting to $211,310.53, will be applied during fiscal year 1951 to accounts payable and to costs incurred on work authorized under this heading.

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 — — — — — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Maintenance
Appropriated
 $131,000.00 $31,000.00 $204,546.58 $651,500.00 $136,512.84 $1,772,799.42
Cost
 175,742.68 53,654.84 157,326.27 484,161.95 182,721.75 1,601,172.01
Expenditures
 197,499.45 57,792.03 166,270.69 142,653.89 475,716.18 1,561,488.89

19. Emergency Flood-Control, Work Under Authority Section 205 of Public Law 858, Eightieth Congress

Section 205 of Public Law 858 authorized the Secretary of the Army to allot from any appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for flood control, not to exceed $3,000,000 for any one fiscal year, for the construction of small flood-control projects not specifically authorized by Congress and not within areas intended to be protected by projects so authorized, which come within the provisions of Section 1 of the Flood Control Act of June 22, 1936, provided that not more than $150,000 shall be allotted for this purpose at any single locality from the appropriations for any one fiscal year.

Funds in the amount of $100,000 were allotted during the fiscal year for work under this authorization.

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 — — $190,000.00 $590,000.00 $3,000,000.00 $3,780,000.00
Cost
 — — 158,065.85 339,844.79 1,099,374.91 1,597,285.55
Expenditures
 — — 152,867.01 383,417.65 921,826.90 1,458,111.56
Maintenance
Appropriated
 — — — -— — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Other new work data:
Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950
 $6,671.61
Appropriated for fiscal year ending June 30, 1951
 2,400,000.00
Unobligated balance available for fiscal year 1951
 2,406,671.61
Estimated additional amount needed to be appropriated for completion of existing project
 15,820,000.00

20. Emergency Flood-Control Work Under Authority of the Flood Control Act Approved August 18, 1941

The Flood Control Act approved August 18, 1941, as amended, authorized an emergency fund in the amount of $15,000,000 to be expended in rescue work, or in the repair, restoration or maintenance of flood-control work threatened or destroyed by flood.

Funds in the amount of $489,253.42 were previously allotted. No funds were allotted during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950.

Operations during the fiscal year consisted of emergency repair work at Jackson Hole, Wilson Area, Snake River, Wyo.

Total costs during the fiscal year were $31,442.15. Expenditures were $0.80. Total costs to June 30, 1950, have been $484,180.65. Expenditures have been $452,738.50. In addition, $20,000 was expended from contributed funds at Silver Bridge, Boise River, Idaho.

The funds unexpended June 30, 1950, amounting to $36,514.92, will be applied to accounts payable. The balance will be revoked.

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 — — — — — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Maintenance
Appropriated
 $35,300.00 $361,000.00 $2,953.42 $90,000.00 — $489,253.42¹
Cost
 261.28 354,638.38 25,992.95 71,845.89 $31,442.15 $484,180.65¹
Expenditures
 — 350,510.63 22,030.98 80,196.09 .80 452,738.00¹
¹Does not include $20,000 contributed funds expended for emergency repairs at Silver Bridge, Boise

21. Preliminary Examinations, Surveys, and Contingencies for Flood Control

Total cost of work during the fiscal year was $146,996.36. Expenditures were $154,448.41. The unexpended funds June 30, 1950, in the amount of $4,567.53, plus an allotment of $90,000, a total of $94,567.53, will be applied to accounts payable and as needed during the fiscal year 1951 for payment of expenses to be incurred under this heading.

The additional sum of $248,690 can be profitably expended during fiscal year 1952.

Cost and Financial Summary
  Fiscal year ending June 30— Total to June 30, 1950, including fiscal years prior to 1946
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
New Work
Appropriated
 — — — — — —
Cost
 — — — — — —
Expenditures
 — — — — — —
Maintenance
Appropriated
 $16,354.72 $35,659.40 $18,481.33 $86,158.19 $117,600.00 $363,526.40
Cost
 16,354.72 35,659.40 18,481.33 55,007.52 146,996.36 361,780.28
Expenditures
 16,354.72 35,659.40 18,481.33 44,742.25 154,448.41 358,958.87

22. Inactive Flood-Control Projects

Name of project For last full Report see Annual Report for— Cost and expenditures to June 30, 1950 Estimated amount required to Complete
New work Maintenance
Pendleton, Umatilla River, Oreg. 1939 $143,262.83 — (1)
Malheur Improvement District near Weiser, Snake River, Idaho 1949 319.39 — (2 4) $41,900
Pilot Rock, Birch Creek, Oreg. 1949 3,700.00 — (3) 122,300
Snagging and Clearing under authority of section 2 of Flood Control Act approved Aug. 28, 1937, as amended 1949 106,861.05 — (1)
(1) Completed
(2) No work scheduled until fiscal year 1954.
(3) Indefinitely deferred pending development of a plan that will meet requirements of local interests.
(4) The estimated amount required to complete will be increased by $980, due to Revocation of this Amount in fiscal year 1951. The total required will then be $42,880.

Locality Authorization act Date transmitted to Congress Document No. Recommendation
Big Wood River and tributaries, Blaine County, Idaho, Snake River and tributaries, with a view of flood protection on. Senate Public Works Committee resolution, Apr. 20, 1948.      
Boise River, Idaho Commerce Committee resolution,
Oct. 12, 1943		 Feb. 14, 1950 H. Doc. 531, 81st Cong.,
2d sess.		 Favorable
Boise River, Idaho, to provide flood protection along Dry Creek, Idaho. Senate Public Works Committee resolution, Mar. 4, 1947.      
Boise River and tributaries, Idaho, flood control Flood Control Committee resolution, Nov. 10, 1943. Feb. 14, 1950. H. Doc. 531, 81st Cong., 2d Sess. Do.
Cascade storage project, Payette River, Idaho. Flood Control Act, Mar. 4, 1937.      
Clearwater River, (Snake, Clearwater and Salmon Rivers), Oreg., and Idaho (supp.308) Sec. 6, River and Harbor Act, Aug. 30, 1935.      
Columbia River and tributaries, review of 308 report. Commerce Committee resolution, Sept. 24, 1943. Feb. 14, 1950. H. Doc. 531, 81st Cong., 2d Sess. Do.
Dry Creek, Boise River, Idaho, to provide flood protection. Senate Public Works Committee resolution, Mar. 4, 1947.      
Grande Ronde River and tributaries, Oreg. Flood Control Act, Aug. 28, 1937.      
Grande Ronde River and tributaries, Oreg. Flood Control Act, Mar. 4, 1937.      
Do.
 Flood Control Act, June 13, 1934.      
Heise-Roberts Area, Idaho, Snake River, Idaho. Commerce Committee resolution, Sept. 24, 1943.      
Marsh Creek, and along Portneuf River, Idaho, in the Pocatello area, Snake River Basin, for flood protection. Flood Control Committee resolution, July 23, 1946.      
Marsh Creek and Portneuf River, Idaho, in the Pocatello area, Snake River Basin, for flood protection. Commerce Committee resolution, July 27, 1946.      
Mill Creek, Wash. for flood protection, at Walla Walla, Wash. Commerce Committee resolution, Mar. 5, 1946.      
Palouse and Touchet Rivers, Wash. House Public Works Committee resolution, July 6, 1949.      
Palouse River, Idaho, Wash., and Oregon. Senate Public Works Committee resolution, April 15, 1949.      
Payette River, Idaho Flood Control Act, Mar. 4, 1937.      
Payette River, Idaho, Cascade storage project. Flood Control Act, Mar. 4, 1937.      
Pocatello Area, Portneuf River, and along Marsh Creek, Idaho, Snake River Basin for flood protection. Flood Control Committee resolution, July 23, 1946.      
Do.
 Commerce Committee resolution, July 27, 1946.      
Portneuf River in the Pocatello area, and along Marsh Creek, Idaho, Snake River Basin for flood protection. Flood Control Committee resolution, July 23, 1946.      
Do.
 Commerce Committee resolution, July 27, 1946.      
Powder River and tributaries, Oreg. Flood control Act, Aug. 28, 1937.      
Powder River, Oreg. Flood Control Act, Mar. 4, 1937.      
Salmon River, Oreg., Snake, Clearwater and Salmon Rivers, Oreg., and Idaho (supp. 308) Sec. 6, River and Harbor Act, Aug. 30, 1935.      
Snake River and tributaries, with a view to flood protection on Big Wood River and tributaries, Blaine County, Idaho. Senate Public Works Committee resolution, Apr. 20, 1948.      
Snake River Basin, Heise-Roberts area, Idaho. Commerce Committee resolution, Sept. 24, 1943.      
Snake River Basin, (partial report on Columbia River and tributaries) Commerce Committee resolution, Sept. 24, 1943.      
Snake River Basin, for flood protection along Portneuf River, Idaho, in the Pocatello area, and along Marsh Creek, Idaho. Flood Control Committee resolution, July 23, 1946.      
Snake River Basin, for flood protection along Portneuf River, Idaho, in the Pocatello area, and along Marsh Creek, Idaho. Commerce Committee resolution, July 27, 1946.      
Snake River and tributaries, Wyoming, flood control and bank erosion, protection in vicinity of Wilson, Wyo. Flood Control Committee resolution, Nov. 10, 1943.      
Snake, Clearwater and Salmon Rivers, Oreg., and Idaho (supp. 308). Sec. 6, River and Harbor Act, Aug. 30, 1935.      
Touchet River, Wash. Senate Public Works Committee resolution, Apr. 15, 1949.      
Touchet and Palouse Rivers, Wash. House Public Works Committee resolution, July 6, 1949.      
Umatilla River, Oreg. Commerce Committee resolution, Mar. 23, 1939.      
Walla Walla, Mill Creek, Wash., for flood protection of. Commerce Committee resolution, Mar. 5, 1946.      
Weiser River, Idaho Flood Control Act, Mar. 4, 1937.      
Wilson, Snake River and tributaries Wyoming, flood control and bank erosion protection in vicinity of. Flood Control Committee resolution, Nov. 10, 1943.      

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