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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (60979)	3/14/2005 1:28:44 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Gib, I didn't put two and two together. Indeed I recall Electrical Engineering I [twice], and your father now that you mention it. Some things are best forgotten. No, I didn't know we'd met! Sediment transport modelling! Wow, sexy!! I worked on the Upper Waitaki canal construction [soil testing] with a friend, Vaughan Whitlock, who also supervised construction of the Ruahihi canal. I tried to sell the Ruahihi people bitumen to prevent leakage - I'd driven along the canal and looked down the steep slope and thought is was a heck of a long way down and any leakage would NOT be good. They didn't buy my bitumen. I didn't know Vaughan was on the job or I'd have hassled him. I was only doing them a favour anyway as the sale was trivial and if they didn't want it, no skin off my nose, so let it go when they didn't reply to my letter. My guess was right and they should have lined it with my bitumen to stop leakage, high pore water pressures, piping and collapse. Down it went in a spectacular flood and a kilometre [or 500 metres maybe] of canal destruction. I came down the highway half an hour after the collapse on the way back from Hamilton. That involved a LOT of sediment transport in a short time. There you are, some old stories. Ah, the good old days. Sediment transport is fun! Knock yourself out. Anyway, what sediment are you transporting? Mqurice

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