Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
To go back into the field itself and to do the actual engineering work?
Actually, the job in Little Rock was the most fun of all. I was back there two weeks ago and
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went out and looked at one of the locks and dams. It looks just like it should.
So in '55', you went to Little Rock. What made you leave MRD? Opportunity?
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Not exactly. First, we really felt that we shouldn't be reviewing things that we didn't know
more about. That was the basic thing. Secondly, Omaha was not a place to live in the
`50's. You said you lived there three years in the '7O'S?
I've been back to Omaha a number of times, and I think it's probably better now than it was
then. They were doing very interesting work. In 1955, we were considering going to work
for the State of New York Power Authority on the St. Lawrence Seaway when we found a
Department of Agriculture yearbook on climate. We looked at the number of days per year
the sun shines in Buffalo and the annual snowfall, and we decided we really didn't want to
go there. Little Rock was looking for people at the time, and it seemed like a better place to
live.
Yes, I guess it's not too good up there.
No, the winters, I think, must be pretty awful.
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Hydraulics Branch
So you went off to Little Rock, and you were in the hydraulics branch of the engineering
division.
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Yes.
And did you know exactly what they were going to have you do when you went or did that
job evolve after you got there?
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