Meanwhile, in North Carolina, where thousands of people are reeling after a coal ash dam leaked into the Dan River earlier this month, there is major frustration as well.
There is a moment when the foundation of things as they are cracks, when the dam leaks its fatal, irreversible drop, when the tectonic plates shift enough to do more than rattle the shelves.
John Hoag, of Harriman, took Mr. Kilgore to task for being too concerned about money to take the safest possible fix years ago for previous dam leaks on the earthen landfill berm that gave way just before Christmas.
At the earth dams, malfunctions, leaks and loss of stability can occur during use.
Certain mitigation technologies are associated with low-probability/high-impact co-harms, such as severe nuclear power plant accidents, catastrophic failures of so-called "mega-dams," and leaks from carbon capture and storage (Bickel and Friedrich 2005; Markandya et al. 2009).
*A provision to shift $3.3 million to repair a leaking dam in Waterbury, Vt.
His name is familiar in the mining world for the discovery of one of the world's largest nickel deposits, in Labrador, and for a leaking dam that led to the cyanide pollution of a 17-mile stretch of the Alamosa River in Colorado.
This is real finger in the leaking dam thinking.
However, often the secondary unintended consequences can also wreak havoc; for example, a leaking dam may present greater risks than the reservoir itself.
The health threats to children are much like a dam, we plug one leak only to find that another one springs up.
