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MULTIPLE PURPOSE RIVER DEVELOPMENT 



and tributaries for navigation, flood control, power development, 

 and other purposes, as outlined in House Document 414, Seventy- 

 seventh Congress, is hereby authorized substantially in accord- 

 ance with the plans being prepared by the Chief of Engineers 

 with such modifications thereof from time to time as in the dis- 

 cretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may 

 be advisable for the purpose of increasing the development of 

 hydroelectric power; and that for the initiation and accomplish- 

 ment of the ultimate plan appropriations are authorized in such 

 amounts as Congress may from time to time determine to be 

 advisable, the total of such appropriations not to exceed the sum 

 of $60,000,000. 



In the period following World War II, there were numerous 

 modifications of the original multiple purpose plan. By 1950, the 

 evolving plan contemplated a low-lift lock and dam for navigation, 

 and two higher dams with locks and power installations on the 

 Alabama River; a flight of locks in the Jordan, Mitchell, and Lay 

 dams of the Alabama Power Company; four dams on the Coosa 

 River above Lay Dam; and some twenty reservoirs on the tribu- 

 taries, some of which would be available for flood control storage 

 as well as regulation for the generation of power.*' Meanwhile, the 



TABLE 27. Principal Corps of Engineers' Structures Proposed 

 for Alabama-Coosa River: Main Stem Only 



Estimated investment 

 Power capacity (kw) (thousand 1949 dollars) 



Project Stream Initial Ultimate Initial Ultimate 



Allatoona Etowah 74,000 110,000 — — 



Leesburg Coosa 57,300 57,300 49,000 49,000 



Patlay Coosa 55300 55,500 27,000 27,000 



Howell Mill Shoals .. Coosa 84,000 105,000 28,700 41,722 



Ft. William Shoals . . Coosa 40,900 40,900 28,000 28,000 



Jones Bluff Alabama 51,000 68,000 36,701 43,701 



Millers Ferry Alabama 57,000 76,000 36,807 38,307 



Claiborne Project . . Alabama — — 12,612 12,612 



Source: Office of the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, Alabama- 

 Coosa River Basin: Report to the President's Water Resources Policy 

 Commission, 1950, Table I. 



^Alabama-Coosa River Basin: Report to the President's Water Resources 

 Policy Commission, op. cit., pp. 1-10. 



