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<h1 style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I've posted two
of these obituaries already, but this one from the New York Times is far
superior to the others (as usual). See highlighted portions of one of the
sentences. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dominy's death
reminded me of a statement made to all attendees by Dan Nelson of the</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'> </span><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority at a meeting on the
"Future of the Western San Joaquin Valley," sponsored by the U. C.
Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at its Agricultural
Station in Parlier, a few years ago. As accurately as I can remember
(Dominy's stated reply I remember very accurately), Nelson said he had run into
Floyd Dominy in the lobby of a hotel in Southern California recently, and among
other things, asked Dominy if he felt that he had ever made a mistake in all
that he had pursued as Commissioner at Reclamation. Nelson said that
after some thought, Dominy replied, "Signing the Westlands Water District
water delivery contract before we had the drainage problem solved."<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I also remember
clearly the role Dominy and construction of the Trinity Division of the Central
Valley Project played in California politics. A congressman from Red
Bluff who was not widely known in the state, Claire Engle, was interested in
running for the U. S. Senate. Dominy told him that if he wanted to expand
his base financially and in other ways to more of California, adding a Trinity
Division to the Central Valley Project and exporting Trinity water to Westlands
would be extremely helpful to him. As you know, the dams were built and
Engle made it to the Senate. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Well…as
Congressman Engle told the Trinity County Board of Supervisors in promoting
construction of the dam(s) as reported in the TRINITY JOURNAL on February 28,
1952, the Trinity Project "does not contemplate diversion of one bucketful
of water which is necessary in this watershed." He stated further,
"The argument that it (building of the dams) would ruin fishing is
nonsense." We early on learned the facts, the results of that
political career enhancing move.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Byron</span><span
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<h1 style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
font-weight:normal'>F. E. Dominy, Who Harnessed Water in the American West, Is
Dead at 100<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Floyd E.
Dominy, a child of the Dust Bowl who pursued his dream of improving nature and
human society by building vast water projects in the West — steamrolling
over pristine canyons, doubtful politicians and irate conservationists —
died on April 20 in Boyce, Va. He was 100. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=caption><span style='font-size:8.5pt'>Floyd E. Dominy, in 1966, with a
model of one of the projects he fostered as commissioner of the Bureau of
Reclamation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>His family
announced the death. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Even before
he became the longest-serving commissioner of the federal <a
href="http://www.usbr.gov/"><span style='color:#004276'>Bureau of Reclamation</span></a>
(1959 to 1969), Mr. Dominy, as a rising bureaucrat, showed a knack for
persuading senators and representatives to push ahead with massive dams in the
arid West. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Marc Reisner
in his 1986 book, “Cadillac Desert: The American West and its
Disappearing Water,” said Mr. Dominy cultivated Congress “as if he
were tending prize-winning orchids.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Mr. Reisner
quoted an official in the <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/interior_department/index.html?inline=nyt-org"
title="More articles about Interior Department, U.S."><span style='color:#004276'>Interior
Department</span></a>, of which the Reclamation Bureau is a part, as saying,
“Dominy yanked money in and out of those congressmen’s districts
like a yo-yo.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;background:
yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Mr. Dominy</span></b><b><span style='font-size:
11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>, who was not an engineer, <span
style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>worked his political and
administrative magic in completing the</span> <a
href="http://www.canyon-country.com/lakepowell/gcdam.htm"
title="Description of Glen Canyon Dam."><span style='color:#004276'>Glen Canyon</span></a>,
<a
href="http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Flaming%20Gorge%20Dam"
title="Description of the Flaming Gorge Dam."><span style='color:#004276'>Flaming
Gorge</span></a> and<a
href="http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Navajo%20Dam"
title="Description of the dam."><span style='color:#004276'> Navajo Dam</span></a>s
in the upper Colorado River basin, and the <span style='background:yellow;
mso-highlight:yellow'>Trinity River part of California’s Central Valley
Project</span>, among many others. The projects stored and regulated water
flow, generated electric power and created lakes for recreation. They enabled
crops and cities to sprout from the desert. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>But they
also sometimes drowned thousands of years of Native American history, and
millions of years of natural history — not to mention destroying fish
habitats. David Brower, the founding director of the <a
href="http://www.sierraclub.org/"><span style='color:#004276'>Sierra Club</span></a>,
called his own acceptance of the Glen Canyon dam — in return for the
bureau’s pulling back on another — his greatest failure. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Mr. Dominy
took the opposite view in a speech in North Dakota in 1966, calling a Colorado
River without dams “useless to anyone.” He added, “I’ve
seen all the wild rivers I ever want to see.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Michael L.
Connor, the current head of the bureau, said in a speech in 2009 that the
agency had 472 dams, and was the nation’s largest water wholesaler,
serving 31 million people. Sixty percent of the nation’s vegetables and a
quarter of its fruit and nuts are grown with “Reclamation water,”
Mr. Connor said. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>The sheer
size of this plumbing empire has long caused friction with politicians from
other regions, as well as sparked concern among White House budget hawks. Mr.
Dominy argued forcefully that fruits and vegetables grown during the winter
months improved the health of all Americans, and that reservoirs created by the
bureau attracted more vacationers than national parks. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>He could
even ascend to lyricism, as he did in describing Lake Powell, which the Glen
Canyon Dam would create in 1966. In a book distributed by the Bureau of
Reclamation called<a
href="http://openlibrary.org/b/OL5965344M/Lake_Powell_jewel_of_the_Colorado"><span
style='color:#004276'> “Lake Powell: Jewel of the Colorado,”</span></a>
he wrote, “Dear God, did you cast down two hundred miles of canyon and
mark, ‘For poets only’? Multitudes hunger for a lake in the
sun.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Mr. Brower
countered that the lake’s pre-emption of natural habitat could also
ultimately affect multitudes. “A thousand people a year times ten
thousand years will never see what was here,” he said. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Floyd Elgin
Dominy was born on a farm in Adams County, Neb., on Dec. 24, 1909. His family
lacked an indoor toilet. He graduated from the <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_wyoming/index.html?inline=nyt-org"
title="More articles about University of Wyoming"><span style='color:#004276'>University
of Wyoming</span></a> with a degree in agricultural economics, briefly taught
school and then became an agricultural extension agent in Wyoming. He hit upon
the idea of helping farmers build small dams to store water for their
livestock, and built 300 in the county. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>“That
was more than in the whole rest of the West,” he said in an interview
with Mr. Reisner. “I was a one-man Bureau of Reclamation.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>During World
War II, Mr. Dominy helped establish instant farms to provide food for miners
and loggers dumped into foreign jungles to harvest critical materials for the
war effort. After the war, he returned to Washington, went to a phone booth and
called the Reclamation Bureau. He had a job in three hours, Mr. Reisner said. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Mr.
Dominy’s rise in the bureau was rapid. After starting in 1946, he became
assistant commissioner in 1957, associate commissioner in 1958 and commissioner
in 1959. He did not behave like a cookie-cutter bureaucrat. Mr. Reisner called
him “freewheeling and reckless,” while Mr. Connor chose the phrase
“larger than life.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Mr.
Dominy’s wife of 53 years, the former Alice Criswell, died in 1982. He is
survived by his daughters, Janice DeBolt and Ruth Swart Young; his son,
Charles; eight grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and one
great-great-granddaughter. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Mr. Dominy
was proud of his role in lubricating the development of America’s West.
One thing he did question in an interview with The Sacramento Bee in 2002 was
the government’s selling water so cheaply that there was little incentive
to conserve. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:17.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>“It
almost staggers my mind when I fly over Phoenix,” he said, “and see
all those swimming pools.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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