Flood protection and drainage : hearings on H.R. 8189, a bill to establish a flood protection and drainage fund and to provide for the protection, drainage, and reclamation of the overflowed and swamp lands in the United States, in the promotion of the general welfare, in prevention of the dissemination of malaria and other diseases among the several states, and to promote interstate commerce by navigation : held before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress.

Includes statements of Mr. Edmund T. Perkins, Sir William Willcocks and Mr. E.J. Watson, and copies of newspaper clippings regarding the meeting of the National Drainage Congress in Savannah (Apr. 22-25).Stephen M. Sparkman, chairman.Mode of access: Internet