re: #121 jaunte

Good luck living downstream from your “relatively inexpensive” dam.

Like in Johnstown, PA, where the flooding was directly tied to a poorly constructed and non-maintained damn creating a lake for rich people to vacation at?

The Johnstown Flood (locally, the Great Flood of 1889) occurred on May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam on the Little Conemaugh River 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The dam broke after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water [4] (16 million US tons) from the reservoir known as Lake Conemaugh. With a volumetric flow rate that temporarily equaled the average flow rate of the Mississippi River,[5] 2,209 people[6], according to one account, lost their lives, and the flood accounted for US$17 million of damage (about $453 million in 2010 dollars[3]).