As you can see from the yellow and red dots which indicate danger, the united states is covered in them. unsurprisingly theyre in some of the poorest areas of the united state.
By 2020 85% of all dams in the united states will be past their life expectancy, and the dams which won’t be past their life expectancy don’t mean they’re safe, the vast majority of those dams are still not technologically advanced enough for our modern society, nearly all dams in the united states are hazardous when looking at this map.
It doesn’t matter how solid a dam is down river from a high-hazard dam. If the high hazard dam fails it will wash out all the dams down river, which will flood even the low risk dams, and can cause failure.
Dam repairs, and updates, and removal is expensive and dangerous, but necessary if we don’t want millions of people to lose their lives.
Damn, I didn’t even know we had that many dams.
we have a fuckton of dams and 85% of them are fuckin ready to burst soon. 8)
Lady Jace Of The Fae 