And I don't mean those in charge of you name it.
What I mean is, could there have been other flood control / utility authorities, like the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), accomplishing similar objectives? In Inside U. S. A., John Gunther mentioned a proposed Ohio Valley Authority--which, if it had been in place prior to 1937, might have mitigated the flood that damaged much of Cincinnati. I wonder if that and other similar agencies (Missouri; Connecticut; Colorado) had been chartered, what would be the effects on the landscape and the electric grid, for starters? Could Oak Ridge have been built elsewhere--say, near Penns Grove, NJ, had there been a Delaware Valley Authority?