Re: River banks and flooding (veering OT)
Jack Goodell wrote:
> Everybody knows that an optimist thinks the glass is half full, and
> the pessimist thinks it is half empty, BUT the engineer thinks...
m a weber 2005-04-19 11:26:01 #36320
Re: Pork Dork
--- In Grand_Canyon_Hikers@yahoogroups.com, holycow@a... wrote:
.....
> My alarm is going off all right....
>
> "Potential benefits to mankind" is a pretty...
Bob Marley 2005-04-19 09:01:16 #36319
Re: River banks and flooding
Bob,
"Because I could."
William Jefferson Clinton's reply to "Why Monica-gate?"
I fear that is the same reason for some of our public works projects.
Dick...
Dick Matthews 2005-04-19 08:46:25 #36318
Pork Dork
At 07:37 AM 4/19/2005, Grand_Canyon_Hikers@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>If projects were prioritized based on potential benefits to mankind,
>chance of success...
holycow@asu.edu 2005-04-19 08:35:03 #36317
Re: River banks and flooding
As I said earlier.
>
>But then you comment was intended to be provocative not factual
>anyway, wasn't it? ;-)
BTW: I think the Chinese are involved in a...
Bob Marley 2005-04-19 08:18:45 #36316
Re: River banks and flooding
Bob,
The post was meant to stifle the "not invented here " syndrome. It
appears to have provoked it instead.
The life lesson that hiking reinforces is ...
Dick Matthews 2005-04-19 07:38:41 #36315
Re: River banks and flooding
Now Dick let's not assume to much here. First what is a "silt ejector
channel around the dam"? He could be talking about the bypass tubes
which all dams...
Bob Marley 2005-04-19 06:46:56 #36314
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