Franklin F. Snyder
There was also a procedure for determining the amount of storage required to
provide water supplies of different dependabilities.
I remember one time, I don't know whether I mentioned this before or not, I think
it was in the Kansas City District, they had a bad flood. They went out and put
sandbags on the spillway. I think they got called out pretty severely about doing that
because dams aren't designed for that. You' re not supposed to store more water
than they were designed for. But by sandbagging a spillway, they were able to store
some extra water.
Although they weren't supposed to do that.
A ..
No, they certainly weren't supposed to do that. I think in that particular case, they
didn't run into any second, into another storm, but they might have. It's not the
thing to do. I think I mentioned before we issued the regulations for other agency
dams that were funded -with flood control money, and private or local governments.
There were a few dams buiit by states that were not federal dams, but that also got
some money for flood control and we issued regulations for those. That was mostly
a matter of just reviewing what the field offices had come up with, but it was still
a little bit out of the routine, to be messing into someone else's business.
Q ..
Telling them how to do it, huh?
A ..
Yes.
Q ..
Is there anything else or any other observations you have on your career or the
Corps of Engineers that you want to impart before we wrap this up?
A.
No, it certainly was a satisfying career. I never hated to get up and go to the office.
It was always anticipating something interesting. Hydrology was my hobby. When
we lived in Arlington Village, I was running an experiment in the bathtub, timing
the waves back and forth, checking out that V equaled the square root of gD. It
checked out, too, but the neighbors got a kick out of that.
Q ..
Bathtub experimentation wave tank, huh`?
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