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Responses to the Challenges of Water Resources
early tried to develop canals along the coastal waterways, but met
with relatively little success.10
Demand for federal construction of an intracoastal canal re-
sulted in 1905 in authorization by congress of a study of the pro-
posed canal. Between 1907 and 1925, several separate improve-
ments were made in the proposed coastal canal, and the rivers
and harbors acts of 1925 and 1927 authorized an intracoastal
canal from the Mississippi to, Corpus Christi. That long-sought
canal was completed to Corpus Christi on June 18, 1949; since
that time it has been extended eastward from the Mississippi
and westward to Brownsville."-
Another proposal for navigation facilities that dates back to
early days is that of making the Trinity River a navigable stream.
As early as 1902, congress authorized the construction of a nav-
igable channel on the river to Dallas, but that authorization was
repealed before the channel could be built.12
After World War II, congress finally passed an act for the com-
prehensive improvement of the Trinity River. That, however,
called for a navigable channel only a short distance up the river
from the gulf. But the aspirations of Dallas to have a navigable
channel to the coast remained much alive, and the Trinity River
Association, a group urging the building of a channel, continued
its activities to have congress approve the project.
In 1958, congress, in response to a resolution sponsored by
United States Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, directed the Corps
of Engineers to conduct a comprehensive resurvey of the Trinity
Basin. By 1962, the resurvey was completed and a comprehensive
plan of development was recommended. That recommendation
was included in the Public Works Omnibus Authorization Bill of
October 2o, 1965, and authorization totaling $91 i,ooo,ooo was
given for the Trinity River Basin. President Johnson signed the
bill into law on October 26, 1965. As 1966 began, necessary appro-
10General Laws of the State of Texas, 15th Leg., Reg. Sess., 1876, Ch. CL; Martin,
"The Grange as a Political Factor in Texas," Southwestern Social Science Quarterly,
VI, 380.
"11Golden Years on the Golden Coast: The Story of the Intracoastal Canal Associa-
tion of Louisiana and Texas (Houston, n. d.), 1-4; William B. Alderman, "Water
Transportation," Texas Parade, XIX, No. 2, pp. 29-32.
"A. E. Weisnborn and H. B. Stengel (eds.), Geological Resources of the Trinity
River Tributary Area in Oklahoma and Texas (Austin, 1948), 7-9.
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