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Originally Posted by Elspode
No, this was an industrial accident, apparently caused by the failure of a level-sensing system which allowed the reservoir to be overfilled, resulting in overtopping and breaching of the impoundment.
Water *will* always win, especially if you pump it hundreds of feet above the surrounding terrain, and attempt to hold it there in a tenuous structure.
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But then read details. Notice how few were harmed. Billions of gallons never reached Lesterville and Centerville because the dam - like all dams should be - was apparently built making plans that also assume the dam would fail. IOW the design had redundancy. Back in the 1960s, someone with an American attitude was at least planning properly.
Do you have that attitude? Do you always apply the parking brake? Or do you plan to fail - maybe kill someone - by only placing transmission in park?
Unfortunately Taum Sauk had obvious failures. Current management had two choices. Fix the problem or never fill the reservoir high enough that leaks would occur. Apparently, recent management chose to install a plastic liner - to only reduce the leakage. Apparently choose not to solve the problem using reasoning that also murdered seven Challenger astronauts. Apparently choose a 'cost control' solution so often found in MBA trained managers.
Any dam that is leaking will fail - often when disaster occurs at a worst time. Meanwhile Federal inspectors should have seen the problem during those many nationwide inspections of every dam in the country. So why did the dam continue to operate with leaks? Is this just another example of purchasing Bush-Cheney?
Move forward by learning from this failure. Who are those top managers in AmerenUE electric company? Are they MBAs and lawyers just like First Energy who then created a massive Northeast US blackout? If so, then we should be asking about things such as the Callaway Nuclear Plant located between St Louis and Columbia in MO. Asking because we don't forget how this same mentality killed so many even in New Orleans. 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. Did something change in AmerenUE that means citizens in MO and IL should start worrying?
Who are the top managers and BoDs in AmerenUE? That is a most important question.