Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
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They also had a lot of water problems there in the delta, too, they dealt with?
Yes. I worked on the delta and the navigation channels, as well as delta levees and all of
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that.
Well, let me go back to MRD. So you worked mostly on the river itself. You didn't really
work on the dams, which, basically, were already designed. What were the major things that
you did on the river Were they basically studies of the sedimentation problems, or any
replacement structures on the river itself'?
We were involved in both studies and in review. One study involved the effect of the dikes
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on river levels. Another was the dam break study. We were also involved in studies for the
closure of Gavins Point Dam. What we were doing in MRD, basically, was reviewing
hydraulic work that was done in the districts, Kansas City and Omaha, primarily. We visited
the Waterways Experiment Station at Vicksburg to look at the district models, at the
solutions, and we reviewed their computations. At that time, the Missouri River Division
was not a division that was loved by the districts. Division people were skeptical of some
work done in the districts remarking that, "We came out of that district. We know who's
left."
So there was a lot of mobility from the districts.
Into the division.
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Was part of that because of the closing of districts like Fort Peck or Garrison, or that it was
a normal migration pattern?
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I think just a normal pattern.
Was that also one of the problems of having a division office sitting in the same city with a
district office?
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I don't know.
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Or maybe there's a lot of promotions out of Omaha to MRD itself?
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