Carroll H. Dunn
There were also other activities in the civil works programs. I remember at least one
or two visits there in connection with that program. But again, the overallcoordination
for NASA was handled by Hayes in Washington. We used to have meetings atvarious
places-the Cape, Huntsville, and other places where those of us involved in the
program could discuss mutual problems and coordination. My memory is that these
were primarily sponsored by Hayes and were very useful in helping us in our approach
to similar problems. I think there was better coordination within the Corps on these
activities than there was within NASA because it was a new organization of individual
fiefdoms that were not as closely connected and coordinated.
Q ..
Were there other important military projects you had?
A ..
There were a number of military projects in the Albuquerque District. They were
primarily for the Air Force, but some were for the Army. There was other military
construction
the Air Force in the Fort Worth area-at
Air Force Base and
other bases in Texas and Oklahoma. There was a considerable amount of work for the
Army, particularly at Fort Hood, Fort Sill, and Fort Bliss, but no large or overly
significant individual projects such as the Manned Spacecraft Center for NASA.
The single most important civil works project was the start of the construction work
on the Arkansas River navigation project. In terms of individual projects, the NASA
project and
Arkansas River project were the two major activities, although we had
a fairly large civil program not connected with the Arkansas program. Work on a
number of individual dams in Texas, one or two in New Mexico, several in Oklahoma,
and flood control in San Antonio and Houston, I remember, were all going on at this
time. Again, the major civil activity was the initiation of actual construction on the
system of locks and dams for Arkansas River navigation.
Q ..
You mentioned, in regard to the Arkansas River, instituting critical path scheduling
there. Would you like to say more about that?
A ..
I guess that was more self-preservation than anything else. General [Robert] Fleming,
who preceded me as division engineer, in planning the Arkansas River project, had
indicated his feeling that the project could be completed by-1 can't remember whether
it was 1968, 1969, or 1970. Do you have the figure?
Q ..
I don't have that right here.
A
We'll have to check this. But he had made a general commitment to the congressional
delegation, principally Senator [Robert H.] Kerr and Senator [John McClellan, that
he thought the project could be completed by a specific date. If memory serves me, it
was 1970.
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