"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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JohnH wrote:


I now think that Bassy *was* referring to the Marine Corps. He seems
to know very little about the US Army Corps of Engineers, of which I
was a member for 24 years.

I have no idea about the engineering specs and manual that Bassy was
talking about, but it seems to me that the jobs the C.O.E's tackle would
require them to be very creative and to think outside the box.

I do think he was correct about the water management issues, based upon
what I have read about the Corps priority lists and down stream
commitments.

Did you notice I change the Corps to COE, so I would not make the Fax Paux
of calling them Corp

The COE would follow the rules. And codes are rules. Thinking outside the
box would leave them liable for immense damage judgements if their was a
failure in a project. Whether the failure was from the compromised code or
not. Just the fact that the codes were not followed would be the deep
pocket entrance.