| Mar 19, 2007 @ 5:01 AM |
How do those of you in Sumner County feel about that Dam breakage situation?
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MusicMonster
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How do those of you in Sumner County and others close by feel about that Wolf Creek Dam breakage situation, and the threat of major flooding? Kinda scary stuff..
Here's part of an article from the Tennessean..
Libraries have flood maps for Wolf Creek Dam break
Wolf Creek Dam, which is beginning a $309 million overhaul to shore it up, holds back the largest reservoir east of the Mississippi. It forms Lake Cumberland in Kentucky.
A worst-case scenario could cause more than
$2 billion in flooding and displace people from 10,000 structures in Nashville alone.
Maps that show flooding that could take place in Davidson, Sumner, Wilson and other counties if the dam on the Cumberland River breaks have been made available for viewing at several public libraries.
The libraries include:
• Nashville Public Library, 615 Church St.
• Inglewood Public Library, 4312 Gallatin Road.
• Hermitage Public Library, 3700 James Kay Lane.
• Bordeaux Public Library, 4000 Clarksville Pike.
• Martin Curtis-Hendersonville Public Library, 116 Dunn St., Hendersonville.
• Wilson County Public Library, 108 S. Hatton Ave., Lebanon.
• Harvey Freeman Memorial Library, 2765 North Mt. Juliet Road, Mt. Juliet.
• Dekalb County, Justin Potter Library, 101 S. First St., Smithville.
• Charles Ralph Holland Memorial Library, 205 W. Hull Ave., Gainesboro.
• Smith County Public Library, 215 N. Main St., Carthage.
• Clay County Public Library, 116 Guffey St. Celina.
• Fred A. Vaught Memorial Library, 211 White Oak St., Hartsville.
— ANNE PAINE
-MM 
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| Mar 19, 2007 @ 1:22 PM |
How do those of you in Sumner County feel about that Dam breakage situation? |
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SpyderLady
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That situation is scary. I got this email from a friend last month.
A little strange humor concerning the situation.
My daughter has a job with Tennesee Army Corps of Engineers, her job is a
type of PR job. Recently a dam on the Cumberland River in Tenn, was
discovered to be leaking. The Army is having to drop the water behind the
dam to make repairs, well of course this is raising the water below the dam
and flooding some areas. My daughters job is having public meetings with
those areas to be flooded, showing them how high they expect the water to
get and when. At one of the town meetings the Army corp passed out pencils
for residents to take notes.. only to notice too late, on the side imprinted on the pencils, was " REDUCE THE RISK, LEARN TO SWIM".
Axxxxx said the pencils came from the public affairs office...lol.
I bet the ones at the meeting didn't much care for that type of humor. 
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| Mar 20, 2007 @ 11:42 PM |
How do those of you in Sumner County feel about that Dam breakage situation?
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MusicMonster
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Hahhahaa that IS funny SpyderLady.. 
The threat it poses is pretty significant to many crowded residential areas. Mine isn't far away. I have yet to figure out just how close or how threatened it could be. But if I suddenly stop posting here, y'all will know something not so good has taken place. Does anybody here fly a chopper? 
And should the dam by chance break, the flood water will likely be VERY deep too. Quite a bit more so apparently than New Orleans was I think. I'm pretty concerned because I get the gut-feel that they aren't nearly as in control of the situation as they would like the public to feel assured they are. And as they are gradually dropping the water level too, they are finding lots of unexpected problems in doing so. It's never been done before.
Naturally I certainly hope my reservations are not founded.
-MM 
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