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‘Serious problem’: 65-foot crack found in Columbia River dam
The Seattle Times ^ | 2/28/2014 | Craig Welch

Posted on 02/28/2014 8:07:24 PM PST by steve86

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To: steve86

Is this the one with the fish ladder where you can watch the fish navigating through the dam? Maybe they all have fish ladders.


41 posted on 02/28/2014 9:49:37 PM PST by firebrand
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To: Heart-Rest

I see what you did there...


42 posted on 02/28/2014 9:51:43 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: firebrand

Good chance you’re thinking about McNary — downstream from us.


43 posted on 02/28/2014 9:54:56 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: steve86

Could be. We drove to where the pioneers had to take to the river in order to keep going. Fond memories.


44 posted on 02/28/2014 9:58:47 PM PST by firebrand
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To: doc1019

Does this job call for the telephone or the pen?


45 posted on 02/28/2014 10:02:17 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: steve86

dam(n) crack.

crack kills.


46 posted on 02/28/2014 10:24:10 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: steve86

Nope, I’m a sinker


47 posted on 02/28/2014 10:27:21 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: steve86

I pray for your safety and for others there.


48 posted on 02/28/2014 10:31:36 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: Amberdawn
Thanks, we'll be fine no matter what but it is the little retirement and recreation community of Desert Aire just a short ways below the dam that I'm worried about.
49 posted on 02/28/2014 10:58:27 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: steve86

All they need to do is use “Flex Seal” to repair the dam.
http://flexsealbrite.net/images/flexsealboat.jpg

And if they act now they can get a 2nd can to repair another dam.


50 posted on 02/28/2014 11:07:07 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: steve86
Ruh-roh.


51 posted on 03/01/2014 12:02:27 AM PST by Viking2002
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To: steve86

If Wanapum lets go we won’t need the Vit Plant and Inslee can stop fretting about deadlines.

( FYI Freepers: Hanford Nuclear Reservation is just downstream the next dam, Priest Rapids. Vitrification Plant will turn high level atomic waste into glass to store at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, or Harry Reid’s behind, which ever is available when the plant is built.)


52 posted on 03/01/2014 12:26:08 AM PST by alpo (What would Selco do?)
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53 posted on 03/01/2014 12:44:12 AM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: steve86

Damn that’s a lot of crack!


54 posted on 03/01/2014 12:57:34 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: minnesota_bound

Flex Seal and Duck Tape. It’s dealing with water isn’t it?


55 posted on 03/01/2014 1:00:22 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: minnesota_bound

If they order a train load will they get a 2nd train load?


56 posted on 03/01/2014 4:06:07 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: ponygirl

different spelling.....


57 posted on 03/01/2014 7:15:59 AM PST by MeshugeMikey (how many times has obie fundamentaly transformed obamacare now?)
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To: steve86

Wow.

That’s scary.

Are you wearing your swim trunks and snorkel, Steve?

The Columbia is north and east of downtown Portland, so even a dam break would probably not impact it.

Vancouver, Washington, however, has it’s front lawn on the Columbia.

The dam engineers will have to figure out something really fast.

Spring rains and snow melt start in a month.

Seattle is about 125 miles northwest of the dam.

We are no where near the Columbia, so no water issues, but probably some power issues if they have to pull the generators off line.


58 posted on 03/01/2014 5:28:13 PM PST by zeestephen
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RE: “Microsoft and Google data centers use power from the dam.”

I had no idea.

My Outlook Express and Bing maps are probably all out there.

The folks in Redmond better be working all weekend on contingency plans if those generators go down.

59 posted on 03/01/2014 5:53:04 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

That must mean he’s a “Dam Engineer”?


60 posted on 03/01/2014 5:56:29 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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