Best they start repairing the dam and resuming daily structural maintenance. Dam is built on gypsum and it erodes daily with a continual threat of collapse inherently present:
http://www.danielpipes.org/5107/saddams-damn-dam-ie-the-mosul-dam
Built on gypsum?
Wasn’t there some major catastrophe regarding a dam - I can’t recall now if it was in Italy, or perhaps I’m thinking of the St. Francis Dam disaster - where the dam was built on gypsum, causing a massive failure? Lots - and I mean A LOT - of people were killed as a result.
I can’t remember now, but I read about it when I was a kid.