Franklin F. Snyder
But I suppose some of it was strictly in the reservoir regulation business. Some of
that was strictly business, trying to develop procedures for handling the reservoirs.
When we developed something that we wanted to send into the field, I forget what
we called it, but I remember sending one, it wasn't a directive, it was just a
procedure that was recommended for use. It was a procedure for determining how
much of your reservoir surcharge storage it was safe to use on any given flood with
the threat of possibly a bigger one coming along later on. I don't even know
whether I have a copy of it anymore. But, of course, we also sent out directives.
It was things like that I had to do research on before we could send them to the field.
Q ..
Well, they had things called Engineer Circulars and Engineer Letters.
A ..
Yes. Engineer Letters.
Hydraulics and Hydrology
Q ..
What about the changes in the organization of hydraulics and hydrology? Hydrology
remained a portion or a part of hydraulics in the Corps of Engineers in Civil Works
in the '50s.
A ..
Yes. I'm trying to think of who, whether Hathaway had a hand when they split it.
It didn't come back together until after I was gone.
Q ..
I thought it was together. I thought hydrology and hydraulics were together.
A ..
Until when?
Q ..
In the ' 5 0 s , weren't they? I know they were in the ' 6 0 s , the late '60s and the ' 7 0 s ,
they were together.
A
Well, yes. The branch was called "Hydrology and Hydraulics.
See, I retired in
`67. It was after I retired that they came back together again. What makes the
hydraulics in involved with structural design, which was Douma'sfield. The other
hydraulics is that involved with river flow. The latter was always combined with
hydrology. The structural hydraulics is what was shifted back and forth.
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