Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
A:
Because the navigation release was 30,000 cfs [cubic feet per second]. In the spring I have
no idea what flood releases might have been.
Q ..
There was a lot of speed in that river. But an awful lot of work has been done on those banks
on the Missouri because it was so erodible.
And because it was so wide and meandering. The channel would be in one location one year
and would shift to a different location next year. For navigation, it had to be kept in one
place.
Now, when you got there in the early
how much work had they done on the channel
stabilization?
My guess now would be that most of it had been completed. Don Bondurant from MRD was
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one of our consultants on the Arkansas, because we were doing the same type of stabilization
on the Arkansas River in the late ' 5 0 ' s as had been done earlier on the Missouri. The
Arkansas was never as wide as the Missouri.
So Bondurant was the MRD man in charge of channel stabilization?
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Sediment.
So you brought him down and used him with the Arkansas project. Now, who did the
Missouri River channel stabilization work?
I think that was also Bondurant's responsibility at the division level. I don't know who did
it in the districts. At the time I was there, the districts, both Kansas City and Omaha, were
building the Agricultural Levee System, the high levees along the river.
Some of which are set back quite far and some of which are right along the river itself?
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Yes.
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