Water Resources: Hme-raulics and Hydrology
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Damn that decimal point, huh? I don't know whether there's anything more before
we get into the Rhine River business.
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No, we can do that if you want.
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Incidentally, did you take that article by Dzuiban?
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I do have that. Do you want that?
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No, you can make me a copy.
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I have it right here.
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Yes. I don't know who started it or why, somebody over there realized that they
had a problem with the Rhine River and so the Chief Engineer asked Washington
for someone to come over and survey the situation. Hathaway got that assignment.
Well, Al Cochran was over there in the Paris, in the Chief Engineers' office in
Paris. When I was there, they were building hospitals. They knew he was a
hydraulic engineer. I'm sure he got together some hydraulic data on the river and
whatnot, and I'm sure he recommended that they get Hathaway.
Hathaway went over. He was a good choice for that because he knew a lot of the
engineers of the various armies. He's the kind that could go around and make
friends with them all. He wasn't over there too long when he sent back a request
for a meteorologist, an engineer, and a hydrologist. I don't know whether he asked
for me by name or not. He probably did on the meteorologist. The chief of this
Hydro-meteorological Section that the Weather Bureau had set up under the Corps'
sponsorship was a Don Cameron. He probably asked for him by name; but whether
he asked for me by name or not, I have forgotten.
But when the word got around the office, I told them if I didn't go, I would quit.
I meant it, too, because there wasn't anybody that had the background I had in
developing flood forecasting procedures. Probably by that time I'd developed flood
forecasting procedures for 20-25 different river basins for the Weather Bureau.
There just wasn't anybody that would have been better for the job than me. And,
of course, I was selected. Whether it was a selection or a request, I don't know.
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