NOTED AMERICAN ENGINEER

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 52, 25 November 1941, Page 8

NOTED AMERICAN ENGINEER

Designed Boulder And Grand Coulee Dams (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 24. A representative gathering of about 20 Auckland civil engineers employed by the Governemt and local bodies and in private .practice entertained Dr. .1. L. Savage, designer of the Boulder and Grand Coulee dams and a world authority on this class of structure. Dr. Savage, who is chief designing engineer to the United States Bureau of Reclamation, is passing through Auckland on his way to advise on public water storage projects in Australia. He will later go on to India for consultations about a major water conservation scheme there. "There are no more super projects, ■like Boulder and Grand Coulee, in sight in America at present,'’ he said, "but many smaller works tire going on all the time. It is impossible to see the end of water conservation work on American rivers or the rivers of the world.”

Dr. Savage mentioned that his bureau worked in friendly rivalry with the United States Army, whose engineers, almost from the 'beginning, had been responsible for control of rivers and inland waterways over most of the .Mississippi basin and eastern States. While in Australia Dr. Savage will advise on a scheme for augmenting the water supply of Melbourne, aud on a hydro-electric project for the State Electricitv Commission of Victoria.