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I don't believe the emergency spillway actually failed, just that they were afraid it might, and the results of that would be pretty catastrophic.
by trevyn 10y ago
I don't believe the emergency spillway actually failed, just that they were afraid it might, and the results of that would be pretty catastrophic.
- maxerickson 10y agoI guess it ends up depending on how failure is defined for a given context. It didn't fail in the sense that the area still holds back water. It did fail in the sense that they believed it to be unsafe to continue using it.