The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-05-14
Bossier Levee Board Proceedings.

BossIER CITY, La, MAY7, 1908.
The Board of Commissioners of
the Bossier Levee District met
this day at Bossier City, La, in
called session. Roll called. Pres
emit: w. B. Mccormick, Presi-
dent; A. J. Moss, Aleck Caplis
and T. w. w. Stinson. Absent:
G. A. F. Poole, W. D. Mercer, Jr.,
and W. T. Colquitt.
Minutes of last meeting were
read and approved.
Captain F. M. Kerr, Assistant
State Engineer, was present, and
presented a report of his recent
Investigations of the levees of the
Bossier Levee District, which was
read and ordered embodied in the
minutes:
NEW ORLEANS, La, MAY 4, 1903.
Hon. w. B. MCCORMICK, President OF
Board of Commissioners, Bossier Levee
District, Shreveport, La.-Dear Sir:
The levee work recently completed, and
still under contract, in the Bossier Leyee
D strict, payable from funds to be pro-
vided by the District, is as follows, viz !:
Willow Chute, new levee-23, 547 cubic
yards. Price per cubic yard 1890
$3,273.02. Final certificate issued.
Buckhall, new levee-18,227 cubic
yards. Price per cubic yard 1863
$2,859.8f. Final certificate issued.
Dortch, new levee-110 cubic yards
Price per cubic yard 17.80-$19580. co.
Under way.
Mercer, enlargement-3O,00o cubic
yards. Price per cubic yard 1870
$5O1O.O0. Not yet begun.
Christiana, new levee-21 $40 cubic
yards. Price per cubic yard 1887
$i,857.16. Final certificate issued.
Buckhorn, new levee-225, $50 cubic
yards. Price per cubic yard $780,
$3,569.55. 95 per cent done.
Total contents of levees, 225, 504 cubic
yards. Total cost of levees, $37, 1885.
Tie levee work under contract in the
District at this time, payable from fund.-
to be provided by the State, is as follows:
viz:
Gold Dust. Contents, 5000 cubic
yarCs. Price cubic yard, t5.4j. Cost.
$11,587.5O. Is per cent done.
Hopewell. Contents, 5000 cubic
yards. Price cubic yard, 15.45. Cost,
$13, 1890. IS per cent done.
Total contents, is 900 cubic yards
Total cost, $24, 10000.
Additional levee work is now required
in the District as follows, viz:
Rough and Ready. Contents, S., 0W
cubic yards. New levee.
Pat Cash's. Contents, $4,000 cubic
yards. New levee, and raising and en-
largement.
Scopeni. Contents, $4,000 cubic yards
New levee.
Dortch extension. Contents, $500
cubic yards. New levee.
Van Hose. Contents, $4,000 cubit
yards. New levee.
All of this work has become necessary
in consequence of caying banks.
At Rough and Ready the caving has
fortunately worked down stream. Along
that part of the river bank opposite thu
Lake the extent and rate of caving has
materially diminished, and cond :tions
4 =
from the angle in the levee below TIT
lake down to point near Old River con-
dit ons have grown more serious, the
distence between the centre of the levee
and the river bank, at one point, being
only $50 feet, with every indication OF
continued extensive caving.
At Pat CASH the river bank has cayed
into the slope of the levee, at the angle
f,rct oh %1,or a1
along here is, however, high, and it re-
quires an acute stage OF water in the
river to even cover it, so that in view OF
the present limited means at the disposal
OF the District for other more important
work, the construction OF a new levee
here might be temporarily deferred.
AT Scopeni, extensive caving occurred
during the high waters of last December
and March, the distance between the
centre of the levee and the river bank
being now reduced at one point-oppo-
site the creyasse hole-to only 2f5 feet.
The levee which is threatened here is on
the concave side OF bend along which
continued caving may be expected.
The Importance to the Bossier Levee
District of maintaining this line is too
well understood to require any special
dISuIicHb.
At Dortch's the caving which develop
ed during the high water of March, ex-
tending up stream to point opposite
the lower tangent of the United States
Scopeni Leyee, where the distance be-
tween the centre of the levee and the
river bank is only Is feet.
A breach in the line of levee here
wonld result as seriously to the District
as one in the Scopeni Levee.
At Van Hoses the distance from the
centre of the levee to the river bank is,
in several places, not more than 100 feet.
The bank along the levee line at Van
HOSES has been caving slowly for quite
a while past, but has recently been
greatly increased by the presence of q
cutoff across the lower neck of Pasca-
goula Point, which occurred during the
high water of March.
Continued serious caving may be ex-
pected here, extending on up into Elm
Grove.
In consequence of the number of new
levees thus required in the District, and