Lake Lewisville dam-future collapse?

[the spindoctor]

Pretty scary stuff considering the efficiency of the governement to maintain/fix things. I didn't realize it would affect that big of an area.

http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2015/lewisville-dam/

[ELVIS]

can you imagine the number of skeletons and bones gonna wash out that thing???

god bless.

[BoostedD1]

Spooky.

[Stephen]

can you imagine the number of skeletons and bones gonna wash out that thing???

god bless.

lifetime supply of sunglasses for dfw

[ceyko]

Pretty scary stuff considering the efficiency of the governement to maintain/fix things. I didn't realize it would affect that big of an area.

http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2015/lewisville-dam/

I've heard from people who are on the lake (fisherman type, not recreational) that it's been bad for at least 5 years and concerned for 10 or more.

Even the "smaller" lakes like Lewisville, Ray Roberts...Hubbard...Lavon still hold an ass ton of water and the rain this year makes sure they are topped off.

[95DRGT]

The corp says it will hold.....hmmm just like the Levee's in New Orleans

[Frank]

Wow...I had no idea how serious this was. "Only 34 miles upstream from Dallas, the Lewisville Dam holds back 2 million acre-feet, or 2.5 billion tons, of water when the lake is full. If the dam failed, the magnitude of all that water unleashed from Lake Lewisville down the Trinity River would dwarf the worst dam disaster in American history.

That would be the Johnstown, Pa., flood of May 31, 1889, which occurred after several days of pounding rain breached the South Fork Dam. The flood killed 2,209 people and devastated the city. The Lewisville Dam holds back 125 times as much water as the South Fork Dam."

[ceyko]

The corp says it will hold.....hmmm just like the Levee's in New Orleans

I thought it was always known/reported that those would not hold. Funding was the issue there.

[CexMashean]

NaTURE ALWAYS WINS!!!!!

[Tremor14]

I thought it was always known/reported that those would not hold. Funding was the issue there.

http://www.informationliberation.com/test.php?id=781

The Bush administration has been cutting funding for federal disaster relief funds since 2001 while doubling funding in other areas to pump up the biggest growth in government for decades, easily outstripping that of Bill Clinton.

[ceyko]

I understand the point your trying to make, but those levees needed work WAY before Bush was in office. This is simply another example of failed government work, which is pretty much everything they do. Your article is just another example of the typical BS that has to be waded through. Regardless of your political stances/beliefs.

[ceyko]

Bush's fault!!!

Duh, so was the Pearl Harbor bombings.

[LS1Goat]

I'm not sold on the 65 foot tall flood wave, but this event would certainly devastate the area. Perhaps it's time to reclassify this from Class 2 to Class 1.

With a full reservoir behind it, a 65-foot-tall flood wave traveling 34 mph would quickly inundate a wide swath of Lewisville, Coppell, Carrollton, Farmers Branch, Irving, Las Colinas and other communities bordering the Trinity River.

The wave would sweep everything in its path — the Lewisville dump, water treatment plants, LBJ Freeway, the Bush Turnpike, Interstate 35E, the State Highway 121 Tollway, Love Field, the Hospital District, office complexes, senior citizen centers, shelters, schools, playgrounds and 53,000 other structures.

Like a tsunami, the wave would submerge downtown Dallas in roughly 50 feet of water, the Corps estimates, causing more than $21 billion in property damage, before continuing south down the Trinity River toward the Gulf of Mexico. “It would be a much bigger magnitude to the Dallas area than Hurricane Katrina was to New Orleans,” says Vazquez. “It’s a nightmare scenario.”

[ceyko]

Yeah, even if half the heights listed - that's pretty bad.

[46Tbird]

lifetime supply of sunglasses for dfw

lmao

I have lost three pair of glasses right beside that fucking dam (it's where we ski).