AP: At least 1,680 dams across the US pose potential risk

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“He had about a 5-minute notice, with no prior warning the day before,” Scott Angel, one of Kenny’s brothers, said. Deaths from dam failures have declined since a series of catastrophic collapses in the 1970s prompted the federal and state governments to step up their safety efforts. Yet about 1,000 dams have failed over the past four decades, killing 34 people, according to Stanford University’s National Performance of Dams Program.

Even though the Angels’ home was squarely in its path, the dam was rated as a “significant” rather than “high” hazard, meaning it wasn’t required under Nebraska law to have a formal emergency action plan. About 20% of state-regulated high-hazard dams nationwide still lack emergency plans, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains the national dam inventory.

Even if kept in good condition, thousands of dams could be at risk because of extreme rainstorms, said Fugate, the former FEMA official. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the U.S. government has cited national security grounds in refusing to include dams’ conditions in its inventory, which was updated most recently in 2018. But the AP was able to determine both condition and hazard ratings for more than 25,000 dams across the country through public records requests.

We better stop supporting other countries and rebuild our own!

What happened to the Obama infrastructure investment?

The brewery doesn’t seem to be very worried about it.

infrastructure?, sorry not important.

That’s OK. Dems running an impeachment hearing that Dems deny is an impeachment hearing is way more important than fixing infrastructure.

Maybe you could tell the DoNothingDemocrats to either help America or at least get the hell out of the way !

THIS is the kind of stuff Republicans dont tell you go ignored when they 'lower' your taxes. Everything goes to hell, but hey, your paycheck is $15 more so thats what counts right?

The GOP is focused on an anti-abortion, the Dems on gun control, and in the middle these are the kind of things that will actually kill Americans. We need to work on infrastructure, as if our lives depend on it, because they do.

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