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No one is worried about the dam failing. The emergency spillway is the problem. It's the hillside you see in the video with water flowing down it, to the left o
by Stratoscope 10y ago
No one is worried about the dam failing. The emergency spillway is the problem. It's the hillside you see in the video with water flowing down it, to the left of the main spillway.
If the emergency spillway failed, it could lower the water level in the reservoir by 30 feet. That would be catastrophic downstream, of course, but probably wouldn't have much effect on the boats.
- mabbo 10y ago> No one is worried about the dam failing My wife, a Water Resources Engineer, is. If the damage to the spillway starts to move sideways, or uphill too far and too deep, you could see the main dam get damaged. It's not as likely as the emergency spillway dropping things 30 feet, as you say, but it's still on the table as a worst-case scenario here.
- Stratoscope 10y agoOh my. I stand corrected. Well, let's hope for everyone's sake that this worst-case scenario does not happen!