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To: Ray76

I’ve read elsewhere that it IS anchored, and that they shaved away looser rock so that they had something solid to anchor it to. I don’t think that the weir was about to slide away, but there appears that some of that rock might not have been as solid as it was thought some 40 years ago. The erosion at the parking-lot end of the weir shows that things could have gotten pretty dicey pretty fast.


1,502 posted on 02/19/2017 12:11:31 PM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: meyer; Ray76

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The weir will go nowhere.

It rests on drilled piers that go more than 25 feet into the native rock.

The concern at the weir was errosion below its bottom near the main spillway.

That was the very first thing that was reinforced with the grout and rock.

The dam is not an issue; flooding and storm flow management is. This has actually been true all of the time, but there was great concern for more possible damage to the main spillway before the erosion was addressed.
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1,509 posted on 02/19/2017 1:00:24 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: meyer; Ray76; gubamyster

See pics at link in post #6 by gubamyster

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3526879/posts?page=6#6


1,595 posted on 02/20/2017 6:11:19 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: meyer; Ray76; blueplum

Grabbed wrong post; pix are here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3526879/posts?page=23#23

H/t blueplum


1,596 posted on 02/20/2017 6:13:07 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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