Posted on 05/16/2019 5:43:22 AM PDT by jaydubya2
Water levels along Lake Dunlap were decreasing all day Tuesday. This came after a spillway gate failed, causing water to push out of the gates and out of the lake, according to the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority.
GBRA released new video Wednesday, which captured the "precise moment the middle gate collapsed resulting in the dewatering of Lake Dunlap."
(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...
dewatering
Wow
It’s not even the proper term for this situation.
Just... Dam.
I think there is a technical meaning of “dewatering”, having to do with drying out soil that has groundwater in it, but the word here was “draining”.
“Hold meh beer, while I go dewater some”
90 year old infrastructure sometimes fails.
Hmmmm, when was the TVA built?
If the lake drains completely, there may be a great opportunity to pick up a lot of firearms lost in tragic canoe accidents over the years.
How do you register a canoe accident-recovered firearm?
Dewatering - Lenntech
Search domain www.lenntech.com/library/sludge/dewatering/sludgedewatering.htmhttps://www.lenntech.com/library/sludge/dewatering/sludgedewatering.htm
Sludge treament A further reduction of the sludge amount is mostly necessary after the thickening. The liquid sludge has to be dewatered and has to conform to a dry and porous form
How dilapidated and unmaintained did that thing have to be to fail like that?
wow!
Drone video of resulting “dewatered” lake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiElHUzg_xk
“How do you register a canoe accident-recovered firearm?”
Send them to me.
L
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