Archive Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1969.001.031 |
Collection |
Holway, William Rea |
Object Name |
Memorandum |
Date |
06/06/1938 |
Digital Link |
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Scope & Content |
Six-page, typewritten copy of three memoranda concerning the Pensacola Dam project on the Grand River in Oklahoma. The first memorandum is one page and addressed to Major General J. L. Schley, chief of engineers of the U.S. War Department in Washington, DC, from E. W. Clark, assistant administrator, dated June 6, 1938. The memorandum concerns the operating level of the power pool on the Grand River Dam Authority project. The second memorandum is two pages and addressed to Harold L. Ickes, administrator of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works in Washington, DC, from Major General J. L. Schley, chief of engineers of the U.S. War Department, dated May 18, 1938. Schley states that a tentative operating plan providing for a maximum power pool elevation of 735 is required in the interest of flood control, and not 745 as indicated earlier by R. V. L. Wright. The third memorandum contains three pages addressed to Lieutenant Colonel Eugene Reybold from the Corps of Engineers in Little Rock, AR, from R. V. L. Wright, general manger of the Grand River project, dated April 23,1938. Wright provides specifics concerning the construction of the Pensacola dam, auxiliary spillways, river bed rock elevations, and movement of highways and railroad tracks. Author William Rea Holway referred to this resource as "Exhibit VI-4" in the first volume of his 1968 work, "A History of the Grand River Dam Authority." |
Search Terms |
dams Federal Works Agency flood control Grand River Grand River Dam Authority Pensacola Dam power plants |
People |
Clark, E. W. Ickes, Harold L. Reybold, Eugene Schley, J. L. Wright, R. V. L. |