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1 always the case with dams, sometimes we find dams yield quite perceptibly.

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3 Q Is there any place where the contactd of the concrete with the rock is exposed at present on that middle section?

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5 A No, the section rests flat on the ""- where it was built. They tell me going down stream, some of the engineers been out there,

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a great llBl'l7 been there, they have been in the office looking for data they want to have supplied.

8 , tell me there is one piece down stream,

9 I haven't seen it, that tore off the bottom.

10 Q Was there &JV grouting anytime beneath the dam?

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13 the usual flattening of an arch?

14 A None. I tried to detect that because I have had experience with arches.

15 The dam was unusually tight after the first year's experience, and the second, and this year

16 u» to iwthin a week or two ago.

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19 1 construction of the St. hancia Dam, axq apprehension oraD7 uneasiness on the part of engineers

of the Department of Water and Power, that it was about to break?

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22 A No.

Q You didn't have aJV" on the Monday that you wer out there?

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25 A No, I didn't.

26 Q. By the Coroner: did any employee indicate to you they were afraid the dam was unsafe?

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28 A Absolutely none, no sir.

29 Q Did you know any employees were contemplating moving their families out of the camp?

A I knew them both.

Ely, and both in the closest kind of contact with Van and I when we were up there laying out some work.I

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