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then added he’d hate to see that authority over to the Army Corps of Engineers, “considering their track record.”
“Well, the Engineers saved New Orleans, I know that,” Colonel Pete Luke said, referring to flood control plans the Army Corps of Engineers had designed for New Orleans, years ago.
“BUT they tried to flood a lot of the Planning District,” White said, referring to the Engineers Salem Church Dam proposal for the Rappahannock River.
“Jim, you don’t know half of it,” Fanning Baumgardner, a former member of the Army Corps oLEngineers, said to White.
“Yeah, Jim, you don’t know where it’s at,” Luke said with a grin. No further discussion followed in the letter Barksdale had received.□
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