JUST IN: The Rapidan Dam in Mankato, Minnesota is in imminent danger of failing.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 24, 2024
According to officials, the dam may fail as debris continues to pile up around it. The dam was built between 1908 & 1910 for hydroelectric purposes.
Residents living downstream have been warned… pic.twitter.com/TsBnyF7rrE
Democrat spending bills are always about money laundering and kickbacks. New Orleans levees are their gold standard.Detmersdislocatedshoulder said:
can some remind me again what we got for the 30 plus trillion of debt we have piled up over the last 20 years. sure as **** isn't infrastructure
Nanomachines son said:
The infrastructure bill sent most of the money to diversity programs, which is our strength, and not to actual repairs or upgrades of existing infrastructure because diversity is our strength, which is the most important part.
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Was this one covered in the Infrastructure Bill or do we need another couple trillion to fix dams?
That reminds me of 2002 when I was out at Medina Lake visiting my folks. The water was WELL over the spillway and came within less than 2 feet from going over the dam. There were real concerns it would collapse...Ghost Mech said:JUST IN: The Rapidan Dam in Mankato, Minnesota is in imminent danger of failing.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 24, 2024
According to officials, the dam may fail as debris continues to pile up around it. The dam was built between 1908 & 1910 for hydroelectric purposes.
Residents living downstream have been warned… pic.twitter.com/TsBnyF7rrE
Kinda looks like it already failed....
Was this one covered in the Infrastructure Bill or do we need another couple trillion to fix dams?
Exactly why it will be blamed on Climate Change and how Trump and his policies will just make it worse.Quote:
In this case, it isn't failing due to poor maintenance, but rather an event it wasn't intended to encounter.
Really don't think that is what this is.JWinTX said:
Lib state enjoying lib consequences.
Ummmmm, a river-based dam wasn't intended to encounter debris from rising waters?Rapier108 said:
In this case, it isn't failing due to poor maintenance, but rather an event it wasn't intended to encounter.
The big zero (obama) and his band of corrupt-o-crats promised a great infrastructure re-build. What happened? Not much.Satellite of Love said:
Must of not been shovel ready….
CyclingAg82 said:The big zero (obama) and his band of corrupt-o-crats promised a great infrastructure re-build. What happened? Not much.Satellite of Love said:
Must of not been shovel ready….
This government is so corrupt and wasteful, it is staggering to think what the consequences will be for our children and grandchildren.
Sounds pretty typical then. SMH.BigRobSA said:CyclingAg82 said:The big zero (obama) and his band of corrupt-o-crats promised a great infrastructure re-build. What happened? Not much.Satellite of Love said:
Must of not been shovel ready….
This government is so corrupt and wasteful, it is staggering to think what the consequences will be for our children and grandchildren.
Not true. They changed signs of already almost completed projects...up in that specific area of the country...to show that it was due to their just-enacted BS.
Saw it with my own 4 eyes.
CyclingAg82 said:Sounds pretty typical then. SMH.BigRobSA said:CyclingAg82 said:The big zero (obama) and his band of corrupt-o-crats promised a great infrastructure re-build. What happened? Not much.Satellite of Love said:
Must of not been shovel ready….
This government is so corrupt and wasteful, it is staggering to think what the consequences will be for our children and grandchildren.
Not true. They changed signs of already almost completed projects...up in that specific area of the country...to show that it was due to their just-enacted BS.
Saw it with my own 4 eyes.
That was a substation. (See the tangle of metal btwn the dam and the flow). This my earlier comment.schmellba99 said:
The dam hasn't failed. The water is bypassing the dam. Not sure if there was a spillway designed there or not, but there's definitely one there now.
The spillway was blocked by debris.BigRobSA said:Ummmmm, a river-based dam wasn't intended to encounter debris from rising waters?Rapier108 said:
In this case, it isn't failing due to poor maintenance, but rather an event it wasn't intended to encounter.
Sounds like something a river-based dam would actually be designed specifically for. And a contingency available for this exact issue.
You people are desperate.Kentucky Jeff said:Rapier108 said:
Looks like this is a run of the river type dam; there is no lake impounded behind it.
Basically what happened is the flooding jammed up a lot of debris at the dam, and the water what water does, found another path. In this case around the sides of the dam and quickly eroded the soil.
In this case, it isn't failing due to poor maintenance, but rather an event it wasn't intended to encounter.
So, a failure at the O&M level? Probably had budget cuts where they had to get that 10% to the big guy and the Uke's... so they had to stretch out the routine stuff.
This easily rates as one of the most absurd posts of the year.Kentucky Jeff said:Rapier108 said:
Looks like this is a run of the river type dam; there is no lake impounded behind it.
Basically what happened is the flooding jammed up a lot of debris at the dam, and the water what water does, found another path. In this case around the sides of the dam and quickly eroded the soil.
In this case, it isn't failing due to poor maintenance, but rather an event it wasn't intended to encounter.
So, a failure at the O&M level? Probably had budget cuts where they had to get that 10% to the big guy and the Uke's... so they had to stretch out the routine stuff.
Waffledynamics said:
You people ...
You would think they would have planned for keeping the spillway unclogged.Rapier108 said:The spillway was blocked by debris.BigRobSA said:Ummmmm, a river-based dam wasn't intended to encounter debris from rising waters?Rapier108 said:
In this case, it isn't failing due to poor maintenance, but rather an event it wasn't intended to encounter.
Sounds like something a river-based dam would actually be designed specifically for. And a contingency available for this exact issue.
The dam likely was never designed to handle a flow rate 42 times higher than normal with the spillway being clogged up.
Well, he didn't blame it on Victoria Nuland, so at least we have THAT going for us...Waffledynamics said:You people are desperate.Kentucky Jeff said:Rapier108 said:
Looks like this is a run of the river type dam; there is no lake impounded behind it.
Basically what happened is the flooding jammed up a lot of debris at the dam, and the water what water does, found another path. In this case around the sides of the dam and quickly eroded the soil.
In this case, it isn't failing due to poor maintenance, but rather an event it wasn't intended to encounter.
So, a failure at the O&M level? Probably had budget cuts where they had to get that 10% to the big guy and the Uke's... so they had to stretch out the routine stuff.
