Dam wasn't blown up till after the water was released through the spillways.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Marius Strom [mailto:marstrom@microsoft.com]
|Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 3:44 PM
|To: Karl Wolz; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: RE: F/ White Salmon River damn "burst"
|
|If by controlled manner you mean a series of dynamite
|explosions that made the dam completely unusable, I guess
|you're right. :)
|
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]
|On Behalf Of Karl Wolz
|Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 1:15 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: F/ White Salmon River damn "burst"
|
|Sorry Alistair, I've gotta side with Dave on this one.  The
|water was actually released through spillways in a controlled
|manner. Burst sounds a bit violent to me.
|
|Karl Wolz
|Sent from my electronic umbilicus
|
|On Nov 4, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
|
|> Alistair, the word "burst" in your post would imply to most (or at
|> least to literalists like myself) that the dam somehow accidentally
|> failed, not that it was decommissioned and removed.  mcneely
|>
|> ---- Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
|>> gee Dave, where I be without you :)
|>>
|>> thanks for clearing that up, I thought that a squadron of
|Lancasters had come in to do the job.
|>>
|>> alistair
|>>
|>>
|>> On 2011-11-04, at 10:57 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
|>>
|>>> The report does not say "burst."  It speaks of
|"breaching."  In other places in the report, it mentions the
|dam being "removed."  I believe this is a purposeful removal
|of an obsolete dam.  The rafter who was interviewed had been
|hired (by whom not stated) to assess silt in the river in
|relation to the breaching.
|>>>
|>>> mcneely
|>>>
|>>> ---- Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
|>>>> on the Columbia river  system
|>>>>
|>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LxMHmw3Z-U&feature=player_embedded
|>>>>
|>>>> Seattle TImes article
|>>>>
|>>>>
|http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016678515_apwadamr
|>>>> emoval1stldwritethru.html
|>>>>
|>>>>
|>>>> alistair
|>>>
|>>> --
|>>> David McNeely
|>>
|>
|> --
|> David McNeely
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