America’s Dams Get Dangerous As Floods Ravage Rivers
Reports on US infrastructure show that many rivers, damns, and highways are in disrepair. Among those that pose the most danger are dams above areas where people live. Some of those have begun to fail.
According to Route Fifty, “Supercharged summer storms unleashed a deluge of rain in many Midwestern states this year, pushing several aging dams past their capacity as floods tore away embankments, inundated subdivisions and carried sediment that had built up for decades downstream.”
States With Problems
Cities were partially flooded in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minneapolis.
The Army Corps of Engineers puts total US dams at 92,392. They are on average 63 years old. “High harvard” dams pose a risk to human life. .
Dam Hazards
Dams are part of a US infrastructure which poses danger to both property and humans. Another part of this is the national grid. Unfortunately, neither private enterprise nor the government has the capital to fix all of these.
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