[Sacajaweau]

Arizona....Dam accident?? Really?? Probably funded by Obama.

[Minn]

Fish removal began Wednesday, the day after a rubber dam on the lake's west end suddenly burst and emptied most of the lake's billion gallons.

Rubber dam?

[goseminoles]

Damn, they act like fish are scarce or something. Feed those gators some illegals, and we have a story.

[kenth]

[UB355]

http://www.frommers.com/destinations/phoenix/0024021255.html

Perhaps the most unusual park in the Phoenix metro area centers on Tempe Town Lake, 620 N. Mill Ave., Tempe (tel. 480/350-8625; www.tempe.gov/lake), which was created in 1999 by damming the Salt River with inflatable dams. Tempe’s 2-mile-long lake is lined with parks and bike baths on both the north and south shores. The best lake access is at Tempe Town Beach, at the foot of the Mill Avenue Bridge. Here you can rent kayaks and other small boats. Tempe Town Lake is the focus of a large development that also includes the Tempe Center for the Arts.

[UB355]

• Concept for lake created in 1966 at Arizona State University
• Opened Nov. 7, 1999
• 220 surface acres – 2 miles long
• 800-1,200 feet wide
• Average depth 12.5 feet, ranging from 7 to 19 feet
• Construction costs: $45,532,196
• Private developers are absorbing $26.9 million of these costs