Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers
on Civil Works Activities
Fiscal Year 1980
Department of the Army Corps of Engineers
Extract Report of Walla Walla District

Columbia River Basin, Local Flood Protection Projects

Location. Improvements included in this project are along the Columbia River and its tributaries.

Existing project. Flood Control Act of 1950 approved a general comprehensive plan for Columbia River Basin for flood control and other purposes, based on plans in H. Doc. 531, 81st Cong., 2d Sess., and authorized $75 million to be appropriated for partial accomplishment of certain projects. Of that authorization, an amount not to exceed $15 million was allotted for construction of local flood protection works throughout the Columbia River Basin, subject to conditions that all work undertaken pursuant to authorization would be economically justified prior to construction, and local cooperation specified in 1936 Flood Control Act, as amended, should be required. (See table 39-B and table 39-D for projects in Walla Walla District.)

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

Operations and results during fiscal year. No projects were recommended for deauthorization during period.

Condition at end of fiscal year. In accordance with provisions of Section 12, Public Law 93-251, the Payette River, Idaho project was deauthorized on 3 October 1978. Mill Creek, Washington, and Touchet River, Washington, were deauthorized 5 August 1977. Boise River was reclassified to inactive status due to lack of economic feasibility.