Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
Marysville as a state project with the federal government paying for the flood control
function, as had been done at Oroville Dam. The state maintained that they really didn't need
the water, and the local cooperation just wasn't there. The Corps has reexamined Marysville
again, but it has not been constructed.
What made you decide you were unhappy at WES? Irene had gone to Sacramento already?
Yes. Well, at the ASCE Hydraulics Conference in August of 1964, I met the assistant chief
of the engineering division.
In Sacramento?
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In Sacramento. I talked to him about what they were doing and asked if they had any
openings. They did, and so then I transferred to Sacramento. I was in planning in
Sacramento. While I had worked in a planning branch before, it was always in a hydraulics
section. I had never been in a planning branch as a planner before. The basic planning
problems related to hydraulics, and it really wasn't all that different, except it involved
economics. Later it also involved social and environmental effects.
So your entire career prior to Sacramento was in the engineering division or some branch of
engineering, except for WES.
Yes. I was in hydraulic design for the most part. Planning at that time was still a branch in
the engineering division. In fact, in Sacramento, the planning branch was in the engineering
division until about five, eight years ago.
So it was just a directorate or a division?
Planning was just a branch of the engineering division.
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But separate from the structures hydraulics?
In the Little Rock District, hydraulics design was in the hydraulics branch in the engineering
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division. In Sacramento District, hydraulic design was also in the design branch, but they
didn't have a formal hydraulic design section until `64. Prior to that, hydraulic design was
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