Readers and Viewers Respond...
I read with great interest and some sadness your [booklet] "The
Chesapeake Bay Hydraulic Model: a Miniaturization of the Largest
Estuary in the United States." As a Corps of Engineers
employee at the Model for nine years and the last federal employee
to leave the site, I have many interesting and wonderful memories
of the facility, its capabilities and the people who worked
there. It was a team effort of federal employees, contractors,
and the wonderful energy and enthusiasm of the many co-op students
that worked at keeping the tides running and the data collected.
Your article captured the activities very well but an empty
building cannot give one a sense of the "spirit" of
the place. Thank you for your interest and efforts. The existence
of the Chesapeake Bay Model had a positive effect on many people
and activities associated with the model. It was a great learning
experience in responsibility and resourcefulness and a wonderful
place (and way) to learn about the Chesapeake Bay. This is in
addition to the science and engineering information produced
by the tests that were direct input into the Corps projects.
Thanks for reminding me of a wonderful time of my career.
Ginny Pankow
Navigation Data Center, US Army Corps of Engineers
Don't you consider your submersions, burials, sound emitting
devices as litter? For example, some SED's [sound-emitting devices]
are cemented into the ground out in the middle of the desert.
No one is ever going to take these items to the dump. They are
going to sit in the beautiful areas you put them in forever....I
would like to know if you think it is ok to litter the environment
with items your organization thinks should be there. Would you
approve of me going all over the country littering the landscape
with lets say household trash, just because I wanted to?
Kenneth Christian
Colorado.edu
If we considered our field installations
as litter, we would feel no need to place them in the landscape.
There are plenty of fine examples of that type of installation
already.
-Ed.
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