Absolutely yes. They were warned over 12 years ago that this might happen. This type of work has no glamour or flash to it. You get no ‘Green Credits’ for it, but it must be done.
Hopefully, we get at least a full week without more heavy rains.
Heavy rain in four days.
My understanding is that there is a new storm expected to hit the area, sometime on Thursday.
That gives the engineers 4 days to protect, yet not solve the problem .
Actually their “warning” was a lawsuit by environmental activists... the reality is its an EMERGENCY spillway, and its by design accepted that damage may indeed occur if it is ever used. Erosion etc is accepted consequence.. the environs wanted them to concrete pave the entire emergency spillway, something that was not remotely justifiable from a cost or maintenance perspective...
And like it or not, to date, the spillway has not failed, its done its job...
What’s disturbing is how bad the original spillway had to be failing to wind up with the giant hole in it that it developed.. someone had been skipping on inspections and maintenance I suspect... or redirecting money elsewhere that was to be used for it, which is usually the case when this sort of things comes about.