"We ripped out the streets. We did the excavation for the pipe -- everything here is underground, as it should be -- and we built the six lakes. ... We did it with trainees, and they were learning to build things. They weren't just pushing dirt around.

"We have a saying in the Engineers -- 'They'll never build a monument to the Engineers. We build our own.' "

-- February 1998 interview
with Marion Cravens and Dixie Eudey