Franklin F. Snyder
A ..
Yes.
Q ..
Now, that's a particular problem on a river like the Missouri, isn't it, where you
have a cascade of big dams that have to be regulated?
A ..
The coordination has to be pretty good to get your maximum benefit. Some
projects, I don't know that we have very many, but, occasionally, you have
multiple-use storage which under certain conditions you fill it up for power. But
also, during the flood season, you try to draw it down so that you'll have it available
for flood storage. That gets a little more complicated, too, when the same space is
used for different purposes. There is space allocated, or there used to be, for
multiple-use. In other words, it's not strictly power, it's not strictly flood control.
Q ..
Yes, because in some you`ve got water supply, navigation.
A ..
Well, that was beginning to be a lot more significant towards the end of my service.
The local people were partially paying for the, I guess in some cases they paid the
full cost for space for water supply. That adds to the complications of operation.
I see now in the journals here, I see paper after paper studying how to operate
reservoirs. I often wonder what they're doing.
Q ..
Whether they've ever learned anything from what you guys did before?
A ..
I'm sure they're making studies on computers.
Q ..
I think it's all computerized.
A ..
Yes.
Q ..
I don't think there's any, some dams are all computerized-operated, I think. There's
no operators on them anymore, that I know of. There may be maintenance people,
but everything else, I think, is taken care of automatically. These very sophisticated
programs they've developed.
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