Take a close look at this dam and you’ll see it’s a disaster just waiting to happen. It’s not a concrete dam as is Boulder Dam, it’s an earthen dam with a tiny concrete spillway at its western side. The slightest leak on or around that earthen dam will cause it to fail just as disastrously as did the earthen levees in New Orleans during Katrina.
There is nothing wrong with the dam. The main spillway is broken and needs to be rebuilt. The dam stands at 917 feet. The emergency spillway (the one that overtopped this week) is at 901 feet. Water will not come over the main dam unless an earthquake breaks it.
“Take a close look at this dam and you’ll see it’s a disaster just waiting to happen.”
What’s the current status of the Spillway? I hear there’s been heavy rains again.