Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Report, 1989

Kemp served as a senior technical advisor for the USACE’ official history of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (“Tenn-Tom”), which stretches across Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. He conducted oral histories with engineering staff members of the Army Corps of Engineers’ Mobile and Nashville Districts, wrote sections of the report, and advised Principal Investigator Jeffrey Stine on technical terms for the report. This box contains Stine’s final report, “A History of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, 1970-1985.” Subjects include (according to the Table of Contents): “The Administrative and Political Process Leading up to Construction,” “Environmental Controversy,” “Opposing the Waterway in Court,” “The Railroads as Adversaries,” “A Return to the Courts,” “Economic Issues,” “Congress, the Tenn-Tom, and Annual Appropriations,” “Planning and Design,” “Construction,” “Minority Participation,” and “Cultural Resource Management.”