The Troubling Danger of Dams

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  @Strykenine · 3 years ago

  I have checked and double-checked and must tell you that dams are not, in fact, airplanes.

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  @TravisJansma · 3 years ago

  I work at 3 dams that are 100+ yrs old. This year we've spent $400,000 on maintenance. We just had our federal inspection and passed.

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  @MichgianCandyland · 3 years ago

  I was down river and my house is high ground. My neighbors brought all their farm equipment to my yard and left it for safety. I woke up with tractors and apology notes in my front yard. Great way to meet the neighbors during Covid

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  @karmacrackdown · 3 years ago

  Small but happy correction: the Lake Hodges dam recently completed a full year of repair work, upgrading its rating from "poor" to "unsatisfactory." The region is planning to replace it with a new dam 100 feet downriver by 2034, and in the meantime have allocated resources for ongoing maintenance.

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  @TimeBucks · 3 years ago

  Thank you for drawing attention to this looming issue.

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  @HT-io1eg · 3 years ago (edited)

  As a child in the 30s, my mother lived in a workers cottage on a floodplain. Twice a year they moved the furniture upstairs, watched the water wash in. Then cleaned the mud out and got on with life. In their retirement, my parents lived in a house half way up a mountain, 1000ft above the nearest river. Her priorities were absolute. I learned a lot from my mum

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  @Marcopolo-pm8ty · 3 years ago

  If you want to learn more about dam failure I highly recommend Pratical Engineering. he's got a bunch of videos on dams, and dams / critical infrastructure failure. The culprits are too often the same: maintenance budget cuts and inaction.

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  @nautica8745 · 3 years ago

  That edenville dam was less that 2 miles away from my Uncle's house, but thankfully they were uphill and didn't get flooded. The more worrying part was that it flooded the local chemical plant, which possibly lead to contamination down river

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  @juulian1306 · 3 years ago

  The Assuan dam at the river Nile in Egypt is also worth mentioning. Not only did it flood an enormous area with all mentioned consequences to the population and the environment, it also stopped the annual Nile floods. These floods brought fertile slit to the fields alongside the river, that had fed the people in the area for millennia. Of course they played a key role in the prosperity of ancient Egypt too.

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  @tengoindiamike · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL57dSIXqBM&amp;t=663">11:03</a> “Photography is strictly prohibited” … pans to the left haha 😂

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  @biggie_tea · 3 years ago

  honestly, as a dutchman, any piece of critical water-management infrastructure being privately owned is absolutely insane to me. Like these companies have no incentive to care about public safety, so handing them such a responsibility seems like one of the dumbest things you could do.

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  @astone_ua · 3 years ago

  We just had a dam blown up by russia in Nova Kakhovka 3 months ago, and that force of water is absolutely deadly, even in ways you don&apos;t usually think of. Even now, 300 km from the dam in Odesa you can&apos;t go swimming because of all the sewage, dead cattle, cats, dogs, fish that was carried right to the sea. No one knows how many people died in total as there are no authorities on the east bank to count the dead...

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