Vernon
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Q ..
So you went to Fort Peck Dam or was it Fort Peck District, was that still in existence?
A ..
There was a Fort Peck District at that time. When I was there they shut down the district,
and it no longer became a district. They moved most of us over to Garrison and a few of
the people they maintained there for operations purposes.
At that time, of course, Fort Peck was completed and we were a Fort Peck District but we
weren't really working Fort Peck other than operating it. The projects that we worked
on were other places and were levees and small dams. We did some work on Garrison,
too. But there was a Garrison District, too, at the same time, and so we didn`t really do
much work on Garrison. A lot of the work on Garrison had already been done.
Q ..
It was in the middle of construction then, wasn't it?
A ..
It was in construction. So all the design work and that sort of thing had been done.
Q ..
One
Well, Fort Peck has a monumental place in the Corps history for a lot of reasons.
of them being it's famous slide in the late 1930s.
A ..
Oh yes.
Q ..
It's a huge project, isn't it?
A ..
Yes, it's a big project, but when I was there, there wasn't a big staff there because it had
all been completed and it was really just kind of an operational district, even at that time.
There were not very many studies being conducted from that area. There were a few but
was the chief of engineering at that time there. He left
not very many. Gordon
there. He came to Washington to work with AID [Agency for International Development]
program, I think.
Q ..
A-I-D?
A
Yes. But he was a real top notch engineer, Gordon Lightfoot. He was one of the better
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