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9-Mile Iowa Lake Disappears in One Day After Dam Breach

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July 27, 2010

9-Mile Iowa Lake Disappears in One Day After Dam Breach

From this story in the Des Moines Register:
Gov. Chet Culver vowed Sunday to restore Lake Delhi, a treasured summer retreat that drained away in less than a day this weekend. The nine-mile-long lake all but disappeared after sudden floodwaters breached its 92-year-old dam Saturday morning. Residents fear millions of dollars in property values also washed away, because about 900 vacation homes and cottages lost their lakefront status. "It just makes your jaw drop," said Irv Janey, a Marion resident who owns a condominium there. "The lake's gone."

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from Walt Smith wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago

Once the property owners downstream get done sueing the lake association for damages there won't be any money left to rebuild the damn dam!

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from RichardF wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago

It's sad, I can't count the number fo summers I fished there.

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from GERG wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago

It's an awful thing but mother nature is indifferent. Thoughts and prayers to those affected. God bless

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from MLH wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago

Seems everyone has lost out.

Any idea how long it takes for a lake like this to fill up if re-dammed?

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from Carney wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago

Home owners on the lake need to be glad it wasn't devastating as the Johnstown flood -- the laws are different now and they would have to pay out the millions!

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from blackdawgz wrote 1 year 27 weeks ago

If engineers weren't up to it, you'd hear about dams bursting every day.

More likely, after all the kickbacks were paid, there wuzzn't enough left to build whut engineers said wuz necessary.

Remember the failed o-ring in a certain space shuttle that killed everybody in front of the televized world!

After the investigation wuz over, there stood an engineer who had warned of it every inch of the way.

At the risk of stating something everybody else knows,

I have never been anywhere that stealing public funds wuzzn't the key part of the economy.

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from GERG wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago

It's an awful thing but mother nature is indifferent. Thoughts and prayers to those affected. God bless

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from Carney wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago

Home owners on the lake need to be glad it wasn't devastating as the Johnstown flood -- the laws are different now and they would have to pay out the millions!

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from blackdawgz wrote 1 year 27 weeks ago

If engineers weren't up to it, you'd hear about dams bursting every day.

More likely, after all the kickbacks were paid, there wuzzn't enough left to build whut engineers said wuz necessary.

Remember the failed o-ring in a certain space shuttle that killed everybody in front of the televized world!

After the investigation wuz over, there stood an engineer who had warned of it every inch of the way.

At the risk of stating something everybody else knows,

I have never been anywhere that stealing public funds wuzzn't the key part of the economy.

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from Walt Smith wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago

Once the property owners downstream get done sueing the lake association for damages there won't be any money left to rebuild the damn dam!

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from RichardF wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago

It's sad, I can't count the number fo summers I fished there.

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from MLH wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago

Seems everyone has lost out.

Any idea how long it takes for a lake like this to fill up if re-dammed?

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