Here’s a link to a Cedar Rapids TV site, with a more up to date report. It’s getting ugly over there,, I am monitoring WMT radio and they are giving hourly, on the scene reports.
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Lake-Delhi-Dam-Has-Been-Compromised-99164894.html
Dam!
The MSM needs accurate numbers when they blame Bush
Unexpected and unprecedented. The gov't at work, again.
From the picture, it’s hard to tell if it’s structurally damaged. I see two spill gates wide open, and plenty of water is spilling through. There must be some other damage as well that isn’t obvious in the photo.
Too much water for the Dam to hold !!!!! Is that right? Who is the Idiot that designed the spillways and who was the bigger Idiot that approved them?? Wait, I know there has to be federal pork money in there someplace. By the time they paid off all the corruption and graft there was a $1000.00 left for the Dam Dam’s Design!
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We should have listened. This was predicted by global warming theorists right down to the day and hour.
First Tempe Town Lake, and now this!
Prayers being said. How horrible.
Golly Moses.
Prayers for those folks.
Where’s FNC drama Queen Shep Smith whining about how the federal government isn’t doing more and how 0bama (peace be upon him) doesn’t care about rural white people? Oh yeah, Shep don’t care either...
Many of the comments at the source article are just damn sick.
My God.... How screwed this country is...
This may be a little off topic, but did you notice the weather spotter’s name was Amanda Duck? Talk about destiny.
Previous thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2558348/posts
The Lake Delhi dam was built in the 1920s by a group of local developers. (Lakeside living has a certain panache.)
What I found amazing were the details on how many *privately owned dams* there are in the United States.
Mila said:
Found this-
“Dam Ownership in the United States
Most U.S. dams are privately owned (56.4%) followed by local governments (20.1%), undetermined interests (11.6%), state governments (4.8%), the federal government (4.7%), and public utilities (2.4%).
Source: National Inventory of Dams, February 2005
Dam owners are responsible for the safety and the liability of the dam and for financing its upkeep, upgrade, and repair.
Although most infrastructure facilities, such as roads, bridges, and sewer systems, are owned by public entities, the majority of dams in the United States are privately owned. In general, very large dams are owned and regulated by the Federal Government.
Given the diffuse nature of dam ownership versus regulation in the United States, it is apparent that dam safety and security are often not solely a federal, state, or local issue.
The safety and security of a dam can affect persons and property across local, state, and even national borders. An incident in one area can affect commerce, navigation, and power generation and distribution, or it can cause severe damage in another area. As a result, there is a reasonable federal role to coordinate federal, state, and local efforts to provide dam safety and security to citizens.
http://www.fema.gov/hazard/damfailure/ownership.shtm";