If this dam’s only 30 years old, why isn’t it hydro with multiple gates, like 8, with turbines? My dam, Mansfield on Lake Travis, was completed in 1940, so the technology existed.
Discharge from the turbines is possibly blocked by the debris from the spillway failure.
Priority will be to clear debris from river channel as soon as is possible to allow turbine flow again.
Turbines are currently shut down.
Good question. It does have a power station incorporated in the design. They increased flow through it a few days back and it caused so much debris flow downstream that they had to cut it back again.
Why no maintenance when there was no water?
Union was just making money