Posted on 03/02/2016 10:49:38 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Pick a wrecked sluice gate. Build a casemate behind it. Blow it open the sluice gate, them make an appropriate size opening in the casemate. Keep the water going through until somebody can repair the remaining gates.
"Take my wife...please" Badda-bing!
IIRC, Saddam Hussein chose the build site for the dam based on the exhaustive engineering criteria of “it will look nice in that spot.” It turns out to be built on gypsum (I think). While we were there, the Army Corps of Engineers was pumping cement into the ground to firm it up. I guess it wasn’t enough.
#39 Mulholland would agree with you. Mulholland said the day it collapsed that all dams leak.
St. Francis Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_Dam
Many photos.
http://tinyurl.com/zqdl8vo
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