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<br />1390 <br /> <br />We have a program in forest media and <br />fluid mechanics. Under this one we include <br />drainage, the relation of surface and sub- <br />surface problems, petroleum technology, <br />mu1tiphase flow in your petroleum reservoirs, <br />and so on, meteorology and climatology, and <br />this is where the program that we discussed <br />this morning fits in. <br /> <br />Then a program in micrometerology which <br />is largely wind tunnel type of thing and you <br />will see the wind tunnel this afternoon as <br />part of your tour and then one in Naval hydro- <br />dynamics. This one is one which you might say <br />is completely unrelated to what we are doing in <br />our other areas. However, as you will see the <br />thing and as I will explain it later, it is <br />quite closely related. <br /> <br />In backing up now on these specific pro- <br />grams that I have mentioned, the first of them <br />Alluvial Channel Hydraulics. In this program <br />we are engaged in research on stable channels. <br />In other words, how can you design canals and <br />other hydraulics conveyance systems so that <br />they stand up over the test of time? Civiliza- <br />tions are, or at least some historians say that <br />they are, inclined to rise and fall depending; <br />upon what happens to their irrigation systems. <br />Erosion control, the development of structures <br />that will control erosion, the development of <br />cropping practices that will control erosion <br />and various other aspects of it. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Also a major program on highway hydraulics <br />for this interstate highway system. Wehave <br />been working on this for a little over five <br />years now. The scour and so on, that takes <br />place when you have an alluvial channel that <br />frequently causes. these multimillion dollar <br />bridges to fall. <br /> <br />And then another program that, unfortunate- <br />ly perhaps, is of,ditect benefit to California I <br />as much or more as it is to Colorado is a <br />program on the use of sediments to line canals <br />in order to prevent seepage, bentonite lining <br />projects. This program is much more active in <br />Wyoming and California than it is in Colorado <br />at the present time. <br />