Franklin F. Snyder
A ..
No, g is gravity, whatever units you're working in. D is the depth. So the deeper
it is, the faster it goes.
Q ..
You've got to explain these things to
All right. I'm a completely blank slate here.
me.
A ..
Fine.
Q ..
But it didn't take long for you to get this whole procedure accepted, a systematized
procedure for reservoir management?
A ..
No, the procedures for presenting a report and designing a spillway capacity that
was almost standardized. That got accepted pretty early in the game. We didn't
have any arguments about it. The field offices had to do it that way. They had to
come in and request a study from our unit over in the Weather Bureau to develop
a Probable Maximum Precipitation for the area that they were working on. They
just started off of that.
I don't know whether I mentioned it before, but one of the projects that Hathaway
started with the Weather Bureau was a storm study program, where all of the large
storms of record were studied. The field offices would develop the data with
standard instructions on how to present it, and then it would go over to the Weather
Bureau for a review. After it got straightened out, it was published as a storm study
with all of the data for that particular storm. The data was presented in usable form
so that the field offices could use it then in design studies and frequency studies. I
suppose that's still going on.
Of course, when you go back through the records, in addition to doing it for current
storms, they gradually were doing it for all of the old storms. So that became a
tremendous task, it was quite a project. It took a lot of money to do all of those
studies. But that data was available for the field offices and Weather Bureau when
they were studying a reservoir project. The reservoir business has gone by the
board now, or has been for some years.
Q ..
Well, basically in the hydrology you were working for the Operations Division
people as far as helping them with regulating reservoirs?
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