Franklin F. Snyder
Yes.
Q.
The water management part as well as the planning.
A ..
Yes.
Q ..
The computations as far as runoff and storage?
One of the main items was this Maximum Probable Flood for the design of the
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spillway, for the functional design of the spillway.
Q ..
I was going to ask you about that because apparently there's a lot of different ways
that different organizations look at these things.
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Oh, yes. The private sector took a real dim view of those probable maximum
floods. They still kick it around. The National Academy of Engineering (National
Research Council) about five years ago, set up a group to review the situation, and
they published a report. Also about that time, Bob Buehler, who was in the same
position I was down in TVA, got quite interested in trying to evaluate the value of
life so as to make it an economic decision as to how big the spillway should be.
There were always people and organizations trying to tear down the idea of using
a probable maximum flood for spillway design because it cost money. The TVA,
I'm sure, had a lot of dams that weren't quite up to the standard that the Corps was
trying to produce. Same with the Bureau of Reclamation. The Bureau of
Reclamation got onboard rather reluctantly. The TVA sort of did also, but used a
different name.
Q ..
Apparently the TVA had a Standard Project Flood. Was there a definition?
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Yes, that was part of the Corps' procedures, but the TVA definition was different
from that of the Corps.
Q ..
Part of the Corps?
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Yes.
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