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Show 84 -- 80-- " Q Is that a type of river in which you could maintain a channel by dredging? " A In view of the known amount of debris, the known amount of sediment which is brought into the channel - actually known within reasonable limits, and which seemed to be deposited there, I would say it would be impossible to maintain for any length of time and sort of permanent channel. In other words - well, you can push, in many places, a rod down with the tip of your finger eight or nine feet, as long as the rod was - I mean to the bottom; it is just soft silt. You can not walk on it in places; you can not pole in it. Many times, when the boat was stuck, you could not get out and push it along; that is, you would have to hang onto the boat and push it at the same time; that is, you would sink if you did not; you would have no purchase. " Q If you were stuck on a sandbar, you could not even use an oar? " A It would be very hard to use an oar. Of course, some of the bars are of harder sand, more compact sand. But in many cases, you would just sink right down; the car would go down with you. The bottom is so soft, however, that by moving around in the boat the current would strike it and the boat gradually worm its way off." R. 185- 186. The river bed is constantly changing below the mouth of the San Rafael River. At all of the side- bars as " I have shown in the survey, and more specifically in my text of this report [ Complainant's Exhibit No. 77] |