Engineer Memoirs: Lieutenant General Walter K. Wilson, Jr. , USA, RetiredPaul mm Walker This manuscript is the product of a tape-recorded interview conducted by Dr. Paul Walker of the Historical Div., Office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with Lt. Gen. Walter K. Wilson, Jr., USA, Ret., in Mobile, Alabama, in Jan. 1978. Lt. Gen. Wilson had a distinguished career in the Corps of Engineers which culminated with his selection as Chief of Engineers in 1961. Photos. |
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Page 272 - or to improve navigation, but also to assure adequate dry season flows for future industrial and urban development, to maintain a quality of water compatible with such developments, and at the same time compatible with recreational use and the continued existence of our fish and wildlife resources. This will require the planning and construction of great systems
Page 271 - than any other single agency actually to put into effect the kind of comprehensive planning which far-seeing men have advocated for many years, and which the Senate Select Committee so recently commended. Our basin planning program began as long ago as 1927 when the Congress authorized us to develop the so-called "308 reports." These were the first comprehensive plans
Page 268 - When I began my Army career as a Second Lieutenant, fresh out of West Point in 1929, the Corps of Engineers had two main responsibilities in the civil works field: the design and construction of navigation works, and the carrying out of a great
Page 327 - Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff of the Air
Page 271 - am. Despite all that has been accomplished in bringing the Nation's rivers under control and in developing their waters for use, we are, I believe, still in the initial stages of river basin development. The experiences of the past
Page 271 - installations of the Corps have an aggregate capacity of 8.8 million kilowatts. At our multiple-purpose reservoirs we have provided 2.3 million acre-feet of capacity for the storage of municipal and industrial water. At those projects where records of recreational use are
Page 271 - control. We have built projects to protect hundreds of miles of shore. In many instances our channel improvement projects have enabled rich lands to be reclaimed by drainage. Other projects of a more specialized nature have also been carried out under the Civil Works Program. I am proud of this record and i believe that this Committee has a right to be just as proud as
Page 272 - me that one of the great problems confronting the Nation 'is the regulation of its rivers for all purposes: not just to reduce
Page 271 - logged the amazing total of 156 million visitor-days in 1964. We are increasingly providing reservoir capacity for the storage of water to be used for
Page 269 - of resource development, our main concern was with the investigation, design and construction of individual projects; and quite often these projects served but a single purpose. Looking back now I can see that we didn't appreciate what an easy job we had then. Today we must plan for the comprehensive development of major river basins, and our goal for each basin must be a plan that will, in the