Margaret S. Petersen
I think Omaha District was involved.
Was Omaha?
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I think MRD was involved because of their large engineering division out there.
Have you talked with Al Harrison?
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No.
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He was initially in Omaha District in the mid-`50's and later in the Missouri River Division.
He worked for Don Bondurant.
Who's dead, I assume.
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Yes, Don has been dead for at least ten years. In fact, almost all of key people in the
hydraulic and hydrology work on the Upper Missouri are dead. Some of the geotech people
may still be alive.
So for all of the big dams up there, the key people from both MRD and the Omaha District
aren't around?
I worked for Nick Barbarossa. I don't know whether he's still alive or not. I've lost track
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of him. But Tim Waara, who was head of our Water Utilization Section in the Planning and
Reports Branch, died in the `70's. Bob Pafford was head of the Planning and Reports
Branch. He may still be alive. Wendell Johnson was head of the MRD Engineering Division
at that time, and he is dead. Al Harrison is probably the only one left.
I heard that Pafford is alive. Frank Snyder said he was.
He left the Corps to become the regional director of the Bureau of Reclamation in
Sacramento. He was in Sacramento when I worked there. Al Harrison was in Omaha in the
and just retired about a year ago.
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