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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I heard about this on the radio on the way home from Balmer (Baltimore) today. They're talking about draining it IMMEDIATELY. YIKES!
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If You've seen some of the photo's the team took to come to their conclusion, its a definite yikes.
There was a massive lack of maintenance of steel parts that have dissolved away, combined with digging out and putting unspeced stress on the earthen parts of the dam.
Its not just piling more dirt in, the stone retaining walls have cracked and are shifting.
Water is flowing in places it shouldn't. Its not flowing in places it should.