do you have a dam problem?
Aug. 1st, 2010 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearhow could you tell, 'cause they've decided it's none of your dam business anymore...
Scholars and Rogues » The nation’s 120,000 dams: Much more inspection, repair needed:
This is yet another of what SHOULD be a no-brainer for the Federal Government to step in and pay for better inspections and better infrastructure while the states are in budgetary crisis, either by doing the work through the department of the interior, or subsidizing the state budgets to cover it.
But they won't.
And like the bridge that collapsed that might have been saved or replaced had Uncle Newt not put a stop to Clinton's infrastructure program of 1993, they won't until somebody dies.
Speaking of dams, I just realized that one of my fav classic Bugs Bunny cartoons never made it to the Golden Collections (which they say they won't make any more of... :( ).
Scholars and Rogues » The nation’s 120,000 dams: Much more inspection, repair needed:
The National Inventory of Dams, maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, contains more than 85,000 dams. The inventory is limited to dams of high or significant hazard that would result in loss of life or significant property damage in the event of failure.The upshot of that is that you can't legally find out if the house you want to buy, the town you want to lease a shop in, the factory you want to build on the water, will actually be safe.
But not all the information about these NID dams can be viewed by the public. That’s because, presumably, of concerns that would-be terrorists might attack high-hazard dams.
This is yet another of what SHOULD be a no-brainer for the Federal Government to step in and pay for better inspections and better infrastructure while the states are in budgetary crisis, either by doing the work through the department of the interior, or subsidizing the state budgets to cover it.
But they won't.
And like the bridge that collapsed that might have been saved or replaced had Uncle Newt not put a stop to Clinton's infrastructure program of 1993, they won't until somebody dies.
Speaking of dams, I just realized that one of my fav classic Bugs Bunny cartoons never made it to the Golden Collections (which they say they won't make any more of... :( ).
