


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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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!
It's sad, I can't count the number fo summers I fished there.
It's an awful thing but mother nature is indifferent. Thoughts and prayers to those affected. God bless
Seems everyone has lost out.
Any idea how long it takes for a lake like this to fill up if re-dammed?
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!
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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It's an awful thing but mother nature is indifferent. Thoughts and prayers to those affected. God bless
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!
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.
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!
It's sad, I can't count the number fo summers I fished there.
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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