BOARD00985

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON.

a thousandth of a second is equal to ten years
and a thousand miles is equal to six inches.
Using this general principle there was con-
structed an electric system which was analogous
to the flow of water. This then permits us
through the analog. within a fraction of a
second. to get an answer as to time. volume.
affect and other factors that we need to know.

The analog is a three-dimensional tool
which is a working aid to people engaged in
water administration. It allows us to pre-
dict any changes in the hydrologic system and
to predict what will happen ten years from
now or a hundred years from now using various
assumptions. Without this tool. or something
like it. it would be almost impossible to
plan any system. That working tool has been
developed. it is being constantly checked in
the field and refined to make it comply with
the actual hydrologic system. Compared to
sending a man to the moon. it is child's play
to construct a system such as this. To back
it up for more complex problems. we can pro-
gram the analog into a large digital computer
which has a memory beyond a million human
brains.

We had to devise first a method based on
modern science that would allow us to compute
these complex problems without having to
spend thousands of man hours in laborious
calculations. Five years ago we recommended
that no legislation be enacted because no
matter what was contained in the legislation
it could not be implemented. Today we are
in a position to implement any adequate legis-
lation that the General Assembly cares to pass."

"I think our first point of discussion
may very well be the bill that was prepared
by you and the staff. Although the Board and
others have received two drafts. the draft
that was completed last night is the current
version. We should work from that. That's