Bonnet Carré Spillway Project (Box 1 of 2), 1929-1939, 1977-1991 (includes facsimiles)

The USACE, New Orleans District appointed Kemp as the industrial archaeologist on the project to preserve the Bonnet Carré Spillway in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Kemp evaluated whether the spillway should be nominated for the NRHP, and Kemp later published his research as the monograph, “Stemming the Tide: Design and Operation of the Bonnet Carré Spillway and Floodway” as part of the Essays in Public Works History series. The box includes drafts of the monograph, reports, correspondence, photographic prints, photographic negatives, photographic contact sheets, photograph lists, handwritten notes, magazines, interview notes, and an audiotape. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: photographic prints, engineering drawings, handwritten notes, reports, maps, and journal articles. Subjects include the Bonnet Carré Spillway in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana; construction of the Bonnet Carré Spillway; Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana; the Lower Mississippi Valley; levees and canals of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; flood controls along the Mississippi River; and the New Orleans flood of 1927. Correspondents include Malcolm Shuman from the Museum of Geoscience at Louisiana State University and Michael Stout from the USACE, New Orleans District. Highlights include an NRHP evaluation of the Bonnet Carré Spillway and an audio interview with Frederic Chatry, chief of the Engineering Division of the USACE, New Orleans District. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 14, Folder 2: nine engineering drawings (1929 and undated), ten maps (1929, 1959-1960), and one brochure (1983).