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Soon after C & C Technologies Inc.'s inception, Thomas and Jim Chance purchased a 95 kHz Simrad EM-1000 multibeam system and installed it on the 26-foot survey launch, R/V INLAND SURVEYOR. The Chance brothers acknowledged their options, "We can either stay in our offices and send out glossy brochures to potential clients or get out and show them what we can really do." So they drove the R/V INLAND SURVEYOR from their Lafayette, La. office to the Hydrographic Conference in Toronto, Canada where they provided on-the-water multibeam demonstrations each hour.

Soon after, the Mississippi River began inundating the Midwest and threatening the city of St. Louis, Missouri. C & C offered, at no cost, this new multibeam technology to aid the city of St. Louis' battle with the Flood of '93. After one week of free surveying along flood walls, through broken levees and around compromised dam structures, an official one-month contract was awarded to C & C by the St. Louis District Corps of Engineers .

C & C's multibeam mapping allowed the St. Louis Corps of Engineers to evaluate the existing devastation and prepare for the reconstruction long before flood waters had receded. C & C has since been contracted by Corps of Engineer Districts in Mobile, Wilmington, New Orleans, Memphis, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Galveston and Baltimore, as well as the USACE Waterways Experiment Station.

C & C provided multibeam mapping of the Panama Canal through a contract with the Mobile District Corps of Engineers. This project involved comprehensive surveying of not only the canal itself, but most of the canal's anchorages and beaching areas. During the course of the 58-day operation, C & C delivered an average of three maps per day at 1:2,500 scale to the Panama Canal Commission.

Gatun Lake, which was created by damming Chagres River, produced perhaps the most interesting data. A variety of historical features were discovered, including the Las Cruces Trail, a cobblestone mule-trail built by the Spanish in the 1500s after their conquest of Peru. Also located was the American Railroad, built by the U. S. in the 1850s to bring gold seekers to-and-from California. A third discovery was the canals dug to haul excavated rock from Gaillard Cut during canal construction.

Also noted were the submerged Chagres River channel and its tributaries. Incredibly, dredge scouring is clearly discernable near the earthen dam where muck was displaced during the dam's construction in 1914.

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Director of Government Programs - Art Kleiner

Project Manager, PE, PLS - Frank Lipari