Mentioned river flow data to a hydrologist last week and got schooled

I was complaining about how much silt we were pulling up on the Mississippi and he asked if I'd checked the 30-day average discharge. Turns out I was running way too deep for those conditions. Has anyone else had a hydrologist or engineer call out something in your daily ops that completely changed how you run?

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wyatt_chen8610d ago

30 day average discharge? That's wild, I've never even thought to look at that metric. I mean, I just check the daily gauge height and call it good (which sounds real stupid now). You basically got a free lesson in why my dragline was digging up more mud than rock last month.

brian_murray10d ago

@wyatt_chen86 that reminds me of a time a geologist told me my anchor was stirring up a buried pipeline.