Are we going to be okay, Random?
Are we going to be okay, Random?
Darn
Oh Shute!
*Insert Jar Jar Binks picture*
Probably, yes.Originally Posted by Crazed_Insanity
Whoomah!
It's the spillway, is the issue that the dam itself might fail if it undercuts the wall?
Or does the spillway also divert the water to another outlet?
My understanding:
The damage to the spillway has reduced the capacity to release water from the reservoir. If used at full capacity, the water will continue to tear away tons and tons of huge concrete chunks, and also tons and tons of earth. All this debris would then get washed into the river, wreaking havoc that is too unpredictable to chance. So water is being released at a reduced rate.
Due to unusually heavy rain and snowfall, which is predicted to continue, the reservoir is filling faster than it can be drained in a controlled manner. The spillway failed at the worst possible time in the last 100 years.
As I understand it, it failed the only time it's ever been used in it's 48 years of existence.
0/1. Yay government!
Sounds to me like we should fund infrastructure projects better.
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