Margaret S. Petersen
No, it was the fact that we knew what they were doing on the Missouri River, and we just
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thought it would be interesting work. We thought of the two, we would have liked to have
gone to TVA, but it seemed to make more sense to go to Omaha, so we did. Life would have
been different had we gone to TVA.
Would you have gone to Knoxville?
Knoxville.
where the lab is?
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No, the lab is actually at Norris.
not too far though.
Thirty miles.
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Yes, it's not too far. I've been up to Norris one time. So you were working for the Corps
in Omaha at the height of the work on some of the big
dams on the Missouri?
Work on the Missouri River
were with the Missouri River Division?
Yes.
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But you worked very closely with Omaha District, I imagine, which was building the dams
along with Garrison District?
Ganrison Dam was under construction at the time. Randall was closed just before we went
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to Omaha by a couple of months. Gavins Point was closed just before we
It must have
been `55, so that we really didn't work on the design of those dams to any great extent. I
was more concerned with the Missouri River.
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