Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
Cochran. He said, "I got plenty of stuff to do. I don't want to read it if it's just going
across the hall to Al
No need to see it then?
A:
He said, "If you got something you two fellows can settle, why, settle it. If you can't
settle it, then come to me. That's the way we operated.
So how many people did you have in Hydraulics and Hydrology then?
When I retired, there were about 10; about half hydrology and half hydraulics. Hydraulics
included coastal engineering and tidal hydraulics. Two worked on tidal hydraulic
problems, another on navigation locks and dams. Neil Parker was the expert on coastal
projects, and he dealt mainly with the Coastal Engineering Research Center. He knew
more about coastal engineering than I did. Whenever there was a meeting at WES or a
district on a coastal engineering problem, I seldom went. Neil went, and I said, "You go,
and come back and tell me what the problems and the solutions are, because I have to
know in case my boss asks me. When Wendell was Chief of the Engineering Division,
and there was a meeting that I didn't attend, let's say on a tidal hydraulics project, the
person who attended the meeting would tell me about it in case someone asked him about
it.
Did you increase the numbers in the branch over the time you were there?
A:
When I first came to the Chief's Office, John Harold, who was in the Structural Branch,
was the only engineer who knew anything about hydraulic design of projects. I increased
it to two. About years later, when the Hydraulic Design Branch was established, it was
expanded to include navigation locks and dams, tidal hydraulics, and coastal engineering
in addition to flood control dams and channels. This required the addition of thee more
hydraulic engineers, increasing the total to five. Later, when the branch was reorganized
to include hydrology, five more hydraulic engineers were added for a total of ten. As I
mentioned earlier, the Chief of the Engineering Division and Director of Civil Works were
supportive of building up the branch.
Coastal Engineering
Q:
We have talked a little about coastal engineering?
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