Any other damn dam problems???

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[cool][#0000ff]Based upon what I think I know...if not understand...is that the dams are owned or controlled by several different types of interests. The water users downstream are generally deemed to be the ones in control. But the dams are often built with federal dollars, as well as state money.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Regardless of ownership or control, all dams can fall under the intervention of Homeland Security. Any dam with potential for great destruction in the event of breaching is subject to closures and restrictions enacted by the feds.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It simply occurred to me that if Ogden is at such great risk by sitting downstream from Pineview, how about Provo/Orem below Deer Creek? Or Heber City below Jordanelle? Or any other populated areas below any other dams? And what exactly are the criteria? How much potential damage does there have to be before a dam is put on the "red barrier list"?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Like other comments on the Pineview thread, I have found it ludicrous that they would try to protect the dam from ice fishing terrorists while leaving the road across the top of the dam open to a truckload of explosives...or the base of the dam open to access by anyone who wanted to pack in a boom boom.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Don't have to make no sense, man. It's the gummint at work.[/#0000ff]
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