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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Somewhere in North L.A. County
Posts: 2,107
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95 years old? Its tragic but long overdue. Two dams failed. Someone will get retirement. Throw in the past chemical brew on top of it adding to future horrors its horrific.
Oroville Dam in California is very similar construction. Double spill ways with center monument. It failed and they put a Band Aid on it. Another one coming (again). Too many engineers disagreed on repairing it versus teardown to be comfortable with it.
I live a few minutes from where the St. Francis dam failed. Me and my buddy Victor here have explored the site with much interest. The earth scars still present. The scour line still visible. Concrete chunks weighing 10,000lbs were found 3/4 mile down the riverbed. Drained 55 miles to the Pacific Ocean. You can not imagine the scale of that valley until you stand on top of what's left of the wing dyke and look out in the distance.
Everything is temporary...including dams.
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"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it is vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible"
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