Multiple-Purpose Reservoirs: A Symposium: Introduction

In September, 1945, a Joint Committee on Design and Operation of Multiple-Purpose Reservoirs was sponsored by the Hydraulics Division of the Society to study and report on the problems involved in the planning, design, and operation of multiple-purpose reservoir systems for optimum watershed development and utilization. The chairman of this joint committee is Raymond A. Hill, M. ASCE. Mr. Cochrane died on September 25, 1948.) It was very quickly found by the committee that there were no fixed principles upon which the design and operation of multiple-purpose reservoir systems could be based; nor was there even any agreement as to what constituted a multiple-purpose reservoir.