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Vandals destroy dam, release 49 million gallons of water into Bay
KRON 4 ^ | 5/23/2015 | Mario Sevilla

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alamedacreek; califdrought; california; dam; fremont; newark; robertshaver; sabotage; sanfrancisco; unioncity; vandals; waronterror
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To: infool7
fifty million gallons of water...amazing

No Terrorism here...nope




21 posted on 05/24/2015 3:25:23 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: telstar12.5

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.


22 posted on 05/24/2015 3:26:30 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: infool7

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.


23 posted on 05/24/2015 3:30:34 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: infool7
According to http://www.cacreeks.com/alameda.htm the flow of the Alameda Creek is 400 to 1200 cubic feet per second. Assuming the low end because of the drought, 49 million gallons is about 4.5 hours of total flow.
24 posted on 05/24/2015 3:35:40 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: infool7

25 posted on 05/24/2015 3:38:47 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: telstar12.5
I have haven't heard of rubber dams before so I looked up some information. I found a Texas company that makes them. They had this picture on their site. I am not sure why but I liked the picture.


26 posted on 05/24/2015 3:39:30 PM PDT by ThomasThomas ("YOUR BADGE! SHOW HIM YOUR BADGE!")
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To: KarlInOhio

Well, when you put it that way it doesn’t sound like that much.


27 posted on 05/24/2015 3:40:07 PM PDT by infool7 (The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
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To: telstar12.5

It’s run by morons.


28 posted on 05/24/2015 3:40:34 PM PDT by NathanR
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To: telstar12.5

Rubber dams are quite safe and they are more responsive to current needs Tha cement dams are.


29 posted on 05/24/2015 3:43:58 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: infool7
If you free the water, and it returns to you, it's yours.

If it doesn't, track down the bastards who did this.

30 posted on 05/24/2015 3:45:05 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: infool7
"vandals"

"Vandals" is more palatable to the people of that area than "eco-terrorists" or "terrorists." They might have to admit that this was done by some of their own tribe.
31 posted on 05/24/2015 3:46:15 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: infool7

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.


32 posted on 05/24/2015 3:47:25 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz is the only true Conservative in this race.)
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To: infool7

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


33 posted on 05/24/2015 3:50:15 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: telstar12.5

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.


34 posted on 05/24/2015 3:52:50 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: infool7

Let all the air out, the Islamists did.


35 posted on 05/24/2015 3:55:40 PM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I think Trojans should be out in front on sponsoring a replacement rubber dam.


36 posted on 05/24/2015 3:55:50 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Gator113
a battery powered reciprocal saw or circular saw.

Or..


37 posted on 05/24/2015 3:59:56 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: infool7
Well, when you put it that way it doesn’t sound like that much.

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.

38 posted on 05/24/2015 4:00:51 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: infool7

Well, dam.


39 posted on 05/24/2015 4:02:53 PM PDT by moovova
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To: infool7

Damn idiots


40 posted on 05/24/2015 4:04:13 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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