Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
on the moss, and I fell to the chute floor. I just couldn't gain my footing, and I was sitting
there on my rump, sliding on that moss down the chute.
fall, and, luckily, they had drained the plunge pool. I thought,
That was about a
"By God, I hope there's not more than about three or four feet of water in the plunge
pool. While sliding down the chute, I had enough sense to keep my feet ahead of me and
my elbows spread out so I wouldn't be tumbling every which way. When I hit the plunge
pool water, my feet hit first. The water depth was about three feet with a couple of feet
of mud on the bottom, which gradually stopped me. I stood up covered with mud, but
wasn't hurt at all, except a little scratch on my left elbow.
Some men were working with a large crane over the side of the plunge pool walls. They
lowered a cable for me to grab a hold of so they could pull me up. I checked the chute,
and found it to be all dry on one side. I decided I would walk up as far as I could. So I
told them, "I'm on the way. I'll walk up. Believe me, I walked up all the way back to
that ladder.
that right?
The next afternoon, we had the board meeting to discuss spillway problems. I said,
"Well, I want to tell you about an experience that I just had yesterday morning, and I
recommend that all of you have that experience so you will know what that water is doing
when it's coming down that chute at miles an hour. Then I told them what happened
to me.
None of them volunteered to try it. The chairman said, "Oh, all clap because you are here
with us. You could have been dead." [Laughter]
That was nice of him, wasn't it? One of the things that must have occurred to you going
down there.
Yes. Well, I'm just rambling around here.
Shah
Dam, Iran
Q ..
You got to see a lot of airplanes, didn't you?
Yes. [Laughter] Oh, yes. One time, when coming back from
a consulting firm
A:
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