Hurricane Helene brought dams in North Carolina and Tennessee close to their breaking point. Many US dams are decades old and weren’t designed for the impacts of climate change.
  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    There are more than 92,000 dams nationwide, according to a US Army Corps of Engineers inventory. Of those, some 16,000, or close to 20%, are classified as having “high hazard potential.” That doesn’t mean they are at increased risk of failure, but that their failure would entail a significant loss of life or property.

    See the Mount Polley TSF failure of 2015 or the Brumandinho dam disaster for visualizations

  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Well, they probably could have handled all this rain 100 years ago. When they were new. Invest in your infrastructure kids!

  • greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    A lot of things weren’t built for today’s climate charged rain and floods lol

    They don’t even store the ‘roads closed due to flood’ signs and barricades anymore. They just leave it on the side until the next storm.