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two o'clock.
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q, What was your observationof the conditionof the dam
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at that time?
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A There was a leak that brought us there. llr. VanNorman
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and myself were brought there and it was a leak thathad not maJli-
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fested itself before, a new one. It was runningdown the slope
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a hill and running across an old side hill out where there was a
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Q On which side?
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A On the west side. An old construction ..., rmmtng up
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there and washing the dirt which was thrownfrom that road, and
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made 41.rv water. Thekeeper telephoned us that the waterwas
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dirty andwe went up there and the waterwas notdirty and had not
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been dirty, but it was cutting. It was throwingit to the side
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of the road,
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arelittle seepshere and there and I will sayas to thatfeature
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of it that of all the dams I have built and of all the damsaI ha
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ever seen, it was the driest dam of its size I ever saw in mylife. •
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I have traveled many miles to lok at new damshereand thereand
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everywhere. Dams are one of the features of engineering,especially
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in the hydraulic office, that we go to look at.
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or nearly full then, within a foot and a Ml1 of lastyear --not
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all last year -- but sixor seven months. And this year it has
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gradually filled up to the overflow point and it was the driest
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dam I ever saw. It was the driestfor a massive dam, I eversaw.
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We were there --Mr. Van lfGr.man and I went l1Jl -- it._ was about
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due time for me to go up because II have been in the habit of going
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up there, and to allthe damswe have got, at leasdtonce in
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ten taye or two weeks. It is part of my patrol, but Mr.Van
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Norman&J'l(\ I went up therethat morning becausae Tony Harnischfeger --
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that is the man who was drownedthere, and he was the keeper --
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Q.