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Originally Posted by island911
Clearly, before any repairs are made, we need a few years of environmental impact studies....
Seriously, from what I see, the engineers built in plenty of safety factor. What's being washed away appears to be fill-dirt on top of some serious granite.
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From the looks of photos during construction, the parking lot, the access roads, and the entire area left of the dam including the spillway and the emergency spillway down to the river was filled in and graded. A half-century or so later it appears original. There was allot of earth moved.