Franklin F. Snyder
Q ..
I've been down there a couple of times.
A
I made a lot of trips down to Vicksburg, of course, when we were working on that.
Do you remember any major technical problems with the model? Or any disputes,
philosophical disputes, or scientific disputes?
Well, no, what resistance there was was subdued. There were always the problems
A
of how best to get the measurements during the tests, and the Waterways Experiment
Station did all of the real work on the design of the instruments and channels. But
that was always a problem to be able to record all of the information when they were
running a test. It was set out so they could use pieces of it. They didn't have to use
the whole model at one time. They could operate one section of it at a t i m e
Q ..
Whatever part they were interested in?
A
Yes, particular when they were doing design work for the field offices. There were
inflow points off every tributary. The model didn't go very far up into any of the
tributaries, except maybe one or two of the major tributaries. So the field offices
had to supply, for whatever study and even for the floods, the field offices had to
supply what the inflow was at all of these points where water was coming into the
system. So the field offices had, particularly during a flood, a major job to supply
that information. When a particular office had a study being may, why they had to
submit that information to the Waterways Experiment Station before they could run
the experiments. They had to know what was coming in at all of the inflow points.
Q ..
You mention the inflow. What were the changes in the way that those kind of
measurements were taken? Did you basically use the same kind of gauges over the
years?
A ..
Are you talking on the model now?
Q ..
No, on the rivers themselves, where the district would say measure the inflow from
a tributary to the Missouri River.
Oh, they all had operating and forecasting procedures for their own rivers so they,
A
other than just the work of doing it, there was nothing new. In other words, they
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