Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
Well, that's a DE's job, isn't it?
They don't always do it, I think. I found a few other things in my old files. That's what we
looked like when we were young [shows photograph].
At the ASCE meetings?
Yes, most of these are ASCE meetings. I was the president of the Little Rock Branch in, I
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think, 1960. So long ago that ASCE has long forgotten they had a woman branch president
back then. There's a lot more stuff of that type. I have a short clipping in here about
Hathaway's death, but I don't have the year on it.
Arkansas River Project
But the Arkansas Project was underway or was it in the planning stages?
Well, the locks and dams were sort of in limbo. We were doing emergency bank
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stabilization on the whole Arkansas River, revetting reaches where caving banks would
eventually ruin the navigation alignment or threatened a levee. That went on until about
1957 when there was funding for construction. That year is probably not exactly right.
But the project had been authorized. Now, there were a lot of bank problems on the
Arkansas.
The Arkansas had one stipulation in project authorization that no other Corps bank
stabilization project that I know of had and that was that the federal government purchase the
land for bank stabilization. In most cases, the local people have to furnish land, easements,
and rights-of-way. As a result some of the land acquired for the Arkansas, like where there
a cutoff across a long, looping bend, was later turned over to the Fish and Wildlife
Service and made a wildlife refuge. Back in the ' 5 0 ' s this was unheard of.
That was Senator Kerr then, wasn't it?
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Exactly.
And Senator McGee?
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