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Postby Ken » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:26 pm

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A billion gallons....Gone.
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Postby Mr. Miyagi » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:31 pm

Damn, and.... I had my boat all hooked up and ready to launch. WTF....

Actually I heard that a number of kids were hurt. I hope they're OK....
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Postby MrBill » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:33 pm

BFD My dough-boy hold's more. :lol: :lol:
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Postby MrBill » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:35 pm

Mr. Miyagi wrote:Actually I heard that a number of kids were hurt. I hope they're OK....
I did not hear about the Kids :oops: :oops:
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Postby oldtrucks » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:40 pm

That's one big Dough-Boy.....

Dec. 14, 2005 — In the rural town of Lesterville, Mo., a family of five, including three small children, had to be rescued after a rupture in a hydroelectric plant dam wall.

According to witnesses, the children were found half a mile from their home after it was swept off its foundation. The children remain in critical condition at Cardinal Glennon Childrens Hospital in St. Louis, suffering from hypothermia and difficulty breathing.
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Postby Ken » Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:59 pm

Someone F'd up.
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Postby MrPolaris » Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:30 am

someone messed up big time. . .

Can you imagine what it would be like if the Folsom damn broke. . .
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Postby ACLakey » Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:16 am

Being that I design these type of things it is interesting in those pics that I don't see an overflow spillway. Like stated above someone screwed up, either in the design or operation.

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Postby oldtrucks » Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:32 am

Certainly an interesting design :?
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Postby dp » Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:18 pm

Doesn't appear to be an overflow failure. I beleive it is only used to generate electricity, ironically not for flood control. Water is pumped in and then stored for use to drive turbines during peak electrical use. Kinda like a capacitor.

That picture of the resrvoir full makes me nervous even if she didn't go. Based on the topography, it would be interesting to see what the "sphere of influence" is for that reservoir assuming a failure at any location.
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Postby Ken » Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:24 am

Actually, I read it was an overflow failure.

Some part or someone screwed up....the water was going over the top...eroding the backside of the dam.....then WHAM.


The plug got pulled.
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Postby ACLakey » Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:36 am

Ken that is my understanding as well. There was a feeder pump that was supposidly stuck on. If there was an overflow spillway protecting the structure this would not have happened.

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Postby Ken » Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:48 pm

Junfan wrote:Ken that is my understanding as well. There was a feeder pump that was supposidly stuck on. If there was an overflow spillway protecting the structure this would not have happened.

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Postby dp » Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:51 pm

holy cow.....yep somebody screwed up! Probably more than once for something of this magnitude.

I've discussed with others that failures are typically a series of three mistakes in a row. It seems that most airplane crashes caused by human error are a series of three bad judgment calls almost back to back. Evidently this once started in design.
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