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Title: 65-Foot Crack Found in Major Washington State Dam
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 01, 2014, 05:54:40 AM

This ain't good! :runaway: :runaway: :runaway:


65-Foot Crack Found in Major Washington State Dam

(http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_09/220516/wanapumdamaerial1_0b7a651f4519190b12c1a2d656742ed1.nbcnews-ux-520-360.jpg)

BY M. ALEX JOHNSON
Federal regulators have been dispatched to Washington state to review a 65-foot-long crack discovered in a major dam, utility officials said.

The 2-inch-wide crack was found Thursday after divers were sent into the Columbia River because engineers detected a misalignment in a spillway on Wanapum Dam near the central Washington town of Vantage, said Tom Stredwick, a spokesman for the Grant County Public Utility District.

A spillway is the part of a dam that controls the release of water downstream.

The water levels along the 8,320-foot-long dam are being drawn down about 3 feet per day to reduce pressure on the structure while inspectors investigate, the utility district said.

Stredwick said the crack posed no immediate threat to public safety or to the dam's electric generating capacity. But the National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for Grant County through the weekend as the water is drawn down because "the potential exists for a rapid increase in flows from Wanapum Dam."



If I lived downstream from this, I'd be checking my flood insurance--yesterday. :o :runaway:

The rest is here:  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/65-foot-crack-found-major-washington-state-dam-n41811

Again . . . :runaway: :runaway: :runaway:

Literally!

Title: Re: 65-Foot Crack Found in Major Washington State Dam
Post by: Mr Mannn on March 01, 2014, 07:23:39 AM

Quote from: BlueStateSaint on March 01, 2014, 05:54:40 AM

If I lived downstream from this, I'd be checking my flood insurance--yesterday. :o :runaway:

If I lived in a state with as many fault lines, earthquakes and volcanoes as Washington...I wouldn't even own property downstream from a dam.

Title: Re: 65-Foot Crack Found in Major Washington State Dam
Post by: Crazy Horse on March 01, 2014, 07:25:21 AM

John F'n Kerry proven right at global warming

Title: Re: 65-Foot Crack Found in Major Washington State Dam
Post by: DefiantSix on March 02, 2014, 12:00:28 AM

Quote from: Mr Mannn on March 01, 2014, 07:23:39 AM

If I lived in a state with as many fault lines, earthquakes and volcanoes as Washington...I wouldn't even own property downstream from a dam.

Kinda hard to live in Washington State and not be downstream of SOMETHING.