Civil works correspondence files, 1959-1977.

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Civil works correspondence files, 1959-1977.

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Copies of outgoing and incoming correspondence of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with state and federal officials, citizens, sports organizations and Illinois Department of Conservation cover rehabilitation, maintenance and repair of canal. Subjects include drainage conditions, inspection of hydraulic structures, drainage ditches, water diversion, sale fo salvaged material, Sterling Dam, boat traffic, repair priorities, flood protection, small animal trapping and costs of abandoning canal. Also included are copies of federal legislation for canal appropriations; copy of supplemental agreement between federal government and State of Illinois to repair, modify and then transfer canal; press releases; and memoranda.

correspondence 1 cubic ft.

Illinois State Archive

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Illinois State Archive

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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: engineer regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Comba...