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I can’t help it. I gotta comment. This is like a farce from a cheap novel. I watched the video and read the article and I’m still LMAO! This “massive effort” is no more than a fart in a whirlwind! These people are truly nucking futs. Who planned this operation, the press agent for gov moonbeam?

1. The baggies of rocks are window dressing
2. This can’t be a surgical effort. It requires mass and quarry stone
3. Why stage from so far away if the helos cost so much?
4. You can haul by truck to hundreds of feet away then if you must helo go from there. The boat ramp parking area looks like a good place for a second staging area and to attack from both sides.
6. This effort is to placate the sheeple. IF they had any sense they would be working to spread the stilling basin or at least create on below the emergency spillway instead of running it into a channel at the abutment of the main spillway
7. Start with a small fleet of dozers and track hoes to push out and lfatten the toe of the area of the emergency spillway all the way across the 1750 foot spread and start dumping and pushing a hell of a lot of quarry stone into the abutment of the main control structure with maybe a layer or two of geofabric draped below the rock?
9. If they were to spread the water and get the velocity low enough across the toe of the emergency spillway it looks like an application for an Fabriform blanket with accelerated grout then some rock.
8. This looks more like a political posturing than engineering. If I were an engineer on this project I’d resign. Better to shovel crap with a spoon than to be humiliated and associated with this kind of kabuki theatre

This country is getting to the point where we can’t even raise a good piss-up in a brewery.

Military grade helicopters? Seriously?