Agreed. The bandaids haven’t been effective. Maybe for occasional use, which is the history of this spillway, but the kind of use it has had this year (and will have again soon), that’s just not good enough. And really, considering the cost of a complete failure (people live and work downstream), a quality spillway is what’s needed.
It’s going to be a very interesting spring - they’ve done a fantastic job of getting things in order after the major wash-out. But the spillway will be used again, and they will have to work out how to rebuild/replace it.
Oh, I appreciate your input and observations. You and others have done a great job of illustrating the situation in-depth.
“... they’ve done a fantastic job of getting things in order ...”
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The worker bees have been busting their tails over the last month.
All of the rock/concrete on the emergency spillway...
and a million cubic feet of debris removed from the river...
24/7 rain or shine.
Bravo to them.