Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
Yes, they did. The Bureau had done some of their model testing up there at the University
W Lane was in charge of the model testing there.
of Colorado.
Was that at Colorado State at Fort Collins?
Fort Collins, right.
Yes. That was Colorado State.
Colorado State. Oh, yes. University of Colorado is south of Fort Collins, isn't it?
Right. It's in Boulder.
Right. Boulder. I didn't do any work in the Fort Collins laboratory.
So you were in there in the Bureau's Denver Laboratory the whole time?
Yes. Oh, I did some work in the Denver laboratory on the Boulder Dam tunnel spillway.
Joe Bradley was there then. Did you ever hear his name?
No. Who was he?
Jake
was head of the laboratory, and Joe Bradley was the assistant. He was in
charge of the Boulder model, and I worked with Joe on that. The details of that escape
me right now.
Well, you had some fairly important engineers working there in Denver, didn't you?
Yes. I think they knew more about the hydraulics of dams than anyone in the Corps at
that time.
Well, besides Lane, didn't you have Edgar Houk there?
Houk? Yes, he was in the Denver office. He headed one of the design branches. I never
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