Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
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That's right.
It was just a regular canal with some locks in it, right?
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Well, yes, I think there were a couple of small locks in there.
But it certainly paled in significance to Tennessee-Tombigbee or something like that.
That's right.
One of the major conflicts within the Corps itself that came out of the whole environmental
movement was the emphasis on non-structural solutions for flood control. How did that
affect your work because you were working so much in the hydraulics area?
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Non-structural solutions. When the planners, who work with the environmentalists,
decided to use a non-structural solution, I didn't get involved because I was only involved
with the hydraulic design of structural solutions.
There's a lot of comment in the Corps itself on the conflict in the organization between the
advocates of structural and those of non-structural solutions.
Yes. Those conflicts occurred in the Planning Division. I never was involved nor had to
make any decision one way or the other.
So you only went to work when somebody decided it was going to be a structural solution.
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That's right. Sometimes it took an act of Congress to decide which solution should be
adopted by the Corps. When it's decided to adopt non-structural solutions, districts don't
prepare design reports for review by the Hydraulic Design Branch, Structural Branch, and
all other OCE Engineering Division branches.
Computer Modeling
If we can move into a little different area--we talked about this before--it's the whole area
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