No Terrorism here...nope
Posted on 05/24/2015 3:07:47 PM PDT by infool7
Fremont (KRON) — Fremont police say vandals attacked an inflatable dam on Alameda Creek that resulted in the loss of nearly 50 million gallons of water.
Police believe that those responsible entered a restricted area sometime on Thursday morning and intentionally damaged the dam.
“The dam, which is instrumental to the Alameda County Water District’s water supply operations, suffered irreversible damage,” police said.
According to police, more than 150 acre-feet of water – or 49 million gallons – washed past the destroyed dam and into the San Francisco Bay.
With California enduring a crippling four-year drought and no signs of immediate relief, the water in the Alameda Creek was to have been percolated into the Niles Cone Groundwater Basin for use by residents and businesses in Fremont, Newark, and Union City as a critical water supply.
“This amount of water is enough to supply the needs of approximately 500 homes for one year,” police said.
District staff was able to quickly open upstream diversions, allowing water which would have been impounded behind the dam to flow into nearby groundwater recharge facilities, thus eliminating further water loss.
“This is a very significant loss of water under any circumstances, and more so in the drought conditions we are experiencing,” said ACWD General Manager Robert Shaver. “It is an utterly senseless, destructive, and wasteful thing to do.”
The District does not believe it will have a long-term impact on its water supply operations.
The vandalized dam is one of a pair ACWD maintains on Alameda Creek. The dams are large, heavy-duty devices, which can be inflated to impound needed water or deflated to allow water to flow through the creek in storm conditions.
Anyone with information about this crime is encouraged to contact Detective A. Ceniceros at Aceniceros@fremont.gov or (510) 790-6900.
either some stupid punk is going to post a video of he and his buddies slicing open the damn..or some terrorist group will take credit for it.
This being CA, all that matters is the gender preference of the perp. If this was a transgender vandal, he/she/it gets a medal.
Well, when you put it that way it doesn’t sound like that much.
It’s run by morons.
Rubber dams are quite safe and they are more responsive to current needs Tha cement dams are.
If it doesn't, track down the bastards who did this.
I am trying to feel bad about this....wait, still trying.
Nope, my “feel bad” just isn’t working.
Hints: -look for two or more guys with either a battery powered reciprocal saw or circular saw. They will be muslim, illegal aliens and/or homosexuals. Oh, they may have wet clothes.
Thanks for the post.
Here is another news report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsLxEzTQFVc
Here is an explanation of what an inflatable dam is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHNKM5HfM2o
We had an inflatable dam on one of our local rivers many years ago. Then some goofball decided to pop a few rounds of .22 into it for fun.
They caught him, but the dam was so tore up it was decided to remove all of it. Now it is just a creek again.
Let all the air out, the Islamists did.
I think Trojans should be out in front on sponsoring a replacement rubber dam.
Or..
Yeah, I saw the 150 acre-feet of volume and remembered that a flood control dam I was hiking on last week has 106,000 acre-feet of storage at maximum.
I sat on the top of the left side of the concrete above the left conduit before hiking back to my car.
Well, dam.
Damn idiots
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