Margaret S. Petersen
Straub, and M.P. O'Brien.
the Mississippi Basin Model, as were Boris Bakhmeteff,
Morrough O'Brien was also a consultant on the Board?
Yes, he was a consultant on the Mississippi Basin Model. We were working with a very
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distorted model, and we were not too sure of how applicable some of the results would be.
Mississippi Basin
Revisited and the Role of Computers
On the Mississippi Basin Model?
Yes. Are you familiar with that model? Have you been to Vicksburg?
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I've been to Vicksburg. I never was out to the one at Jackson.
There is a model of the Lower Mississippi River at Vicksburg. It's pretty much the same
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type of model.
Right, which is all pretty much mothballed now, I think.
Yes. And so is the one at Jackson.
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I think the one at Jackson completely closed down.
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Yes, I think it was turned over to
College, or one of the other colleges in Jackson.
they still use part of the one at Vicksburg, but they do so much inside now rather than
outside, and so much with the computers.
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Yes. I saw a video yesterday from the Huntington
of the Corps, a computer
simulation of building a new lock on the Kanawha River. They have two small existing
locks that they want to replace with a higher lift 11 O-foot lock. The video was a computer
simulation showing how the existing locks operate and how a 1 lo-foot wide lock would
operate. The simulation was very impressive; the video ran for minutes.
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