The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-09-12
Levee Board Proceedings.
Boss1ER CRY, La, }
Thursday, Sept. S, 1895. J

The Board of Commissioners OF |
the Bossier Levee District met pur-
suant to call of the President. Pres
ent: Messrs. W. II. Hodges, Presi-
dent; P. B. Cash, II. J. Lenoir, A. J.
Moss, J. T. McDade, T. W. W. Stin-
son. Absent: W F. Colquitt.
The Board of State Engineers was
represented by Capt. F. NJ. Kerr.
The minutes of last meeting was
read and approved.
Capt. F. NJ. Kerr submitted the
following report, which was read:
New ORLEANS, La, SEPT. 4, 1895.
To the Honorable Board of Levee
Commissioners of the Bossier Levee
District, Bossier City, La: Sirs-
You have been called together by
your President at this time, as we
understand, to consider and discuss
the further necessities of the District,
and to provide the ways and means
to secure them.
In this connection, the Board of
State Engineers would respectfully
submit the following remarks and
recommendations.
The levee work so far executed in
the District, since the organization
of your Board, has been very large in
amount and generally distributed to
do the greatest good to the greatest
number, and the improvement in the
condition of the District is in conse-
quence, very great and very satisfac-
tory, but the system as a whole, is
yet far from what is required to in
sure protection from overflow to the
District at large.
The entire front of your District
has not yet received the attention it
demands, no public effort having thus
far been made during the existence
of your Board for the improvement
, of the levees at Buck Hall, the greater
part of Cash Point, Benoist Bayou to
billiards., and from Buck Horn to the
, lower limit of the District. More
+ over: conditions are constantly aris-
f ing in one locality, and then another,
which tend to impair to a greater or
q less extent, the efficiency Of the work
, already executed, and to call for the
further Improvement Of existing lines.
q This impairment results from
changes in the river, due to the great
er confinement of tho foods which
q visit it as the work of the Bossier and
q Caddo Levee Districts progresses
causing the enlargement of the sec
/ ton of the river by caving and scour'
ing, and the adjustment of high
f water slopes to new local conditions
a The points at which work at this
! date is demanded in consequence Of
changes of condition, are as follows
I First, from caving banks, Taylor's
. Pandora, Colquitt's to billiards. ano
, Halls. Second, from adjustment o.
, high water slope: Hurricane Bluff
, to Pandora, and from Magenta t.
y Lovely Point.
: To recapitulate, the Board of State
. Engineers would, at this date re.
spectfully submit the following ur
q gent recommendations, viz:
j. The enlargement of the present
8 line of levee from Hurricane Bluff te
q Taylor's; new levee at Taylor's; the
1 enlargement of the present line o.
y levee from Taylor's to Buck Hall E
|, new levee and the enlargement of {
. part of the old levee at Buck Hall; {
l. new levee and the enlargement of {
v part of the old levee at Cash Point
}. the enlargement of the present levet
at Shady Grove; a new levee from
n Shady Grove to Carmouche's; th,
s enlargement of the present leve'
J. from Carmouche's to letters; section
y of new levee aud the enlargement o
parts of the old levee from Jeter's t.
Billiards.: a new levee at Halls tn,