Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
A:
No. He
about 1945 and went to the Washington office of the Department of the
Interior. He retired in the 1950's and came back to Denver. I haven't heard of him for
many years. I think he is still in the Denver area.
How about
Dewey?
A:
Oh, yes. Dewey and I were very close. In fact, we had desks right next to each other
when we
working in the Bureau's Project Investigations Branch. We also worked
together in the laboratory. Dewey was an Army reservist, and when World War II
started, he served in the Army for about two years.
the war, he went to work for
the Corps of Engineers. I don't know where, but in about two years he went to the San
Francisco District as head of the hydraulic laboratory.
all?
Was he involved with the San Francisco Bay Model
A:
Yes. A very large model of the San Francisco Bay was the only model being tested at that
time
The Bay Model was quite intricate, wasn't it?
A:
Yes, it was. I never worked there, but when I was in the Chief's office, I went to the
laboratory several times to attend review meetings of the model tests results. It was a very
good model.
What about Victor Streeter?
A:
Yes. Victor Streeter was also at the Bureau of Reclamation's Denver laboratory when I
was there. He was very theoretical, and didn't seem to be happy about just running model
tests in the basement. It wasn't very long before he left to become a professor at the
University of Illinois. He wrote a book on fluid mechanics. As far as I know, he ended
his career there.
By the time you had worked with both Streeter and Barnes, they had both been to
Germany on John Freeman Fellowships.
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