Gov. Walz to tour damage at Rapidan Dam, provide update on flood conditions
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will visit the Rapidan Dam on Tuesday to see erosion and damage firsthand. During an afternoon press conference, Walz and other leaders will provide a flood outlook and discuss recovery efforts.
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It was only a week ago. Clearly no rush for the govenor. 😂
The GOVENOR was congressman for years in the area and knows for over 20 years the OLD Dam. Perfect to either place a WINDMILL on it or restore the whole area to the way it was naturally for 12,500 years before the democrats polluted it with chemicals. The whole water way needs to be returned to its original mother nature. Gov Walz, Klobuchar, Tina Smith are are getting their 10% for their plans for white man power lines. RETURN it to the people and let every PERSON have access to fish and hunt the land as promised by democrats many years ago.
I can promise this to the public, not a single person that lives down by rapidan wants him to visit…..
Waltz, I wait with baited breath.
Takes two newsreaders these days to do 20 second lead-ins......
His Highness the governor just NOW found the time to do a publicity photo shoot at the dam....
they should had a guy on the dam in a safety harness attached to a crane removing the logs from the spillway supposedly there used to be a boom upstream to catch logs dont know what happened to it
They could have also punctured the dam, people were talking about a safe way to do that like some kind of concrete that expands as it hardens. Or bang it with a wrecking ball. There are a million ways to do it and they had time, but instead of taking action, they demolished the dam store to avoid the optics of it falling into the river as well. Politicians who only know politics.
The water flow was 33k to 43k cfm for most of the week. It's clear there are a lot of expets who don't understand the force or risk involved with that high of flow.
@@colinklang Get a long boom excavator, chain it to something heavy. Attach grabber bucket. There you have a method, and these machines are readily available.
Time to add ‘scour’ to the list of extreme weather impacts
Damn it’s still raining up there smh
Pure negligence
No Back up to the Back up Plan... But wait WALNUTZ will fix it like our State Surplus. Oh wait,, That's gone
Could not agree more.
I'd use any excuse to get away from Murderapolis, too.
Why haven't they blown the rest of the dam??? Do they imagine they can just "repair" what's left?
What was the dams age?
is about 100 years old.. But was updated.. Cement was in pretty go shaped.. Spillway base was redone with new cement a few years back during low water time.
Built in 1910. It's had some repairs over the years.
Walz had to go see the damage he caused first hand. Everyone knows this dam should have been dealt with years ago.
This whole event was easily predicted. I've never been there in my life and when I saw the drone footage looking upstream of the dam, this immediate question pops into mind: "During heavy rainfall, how is *that* going to fit through *this* using nothing but *those* gates? You have your answer. The dam was physically not tall enough and therefore the flood gates were also not tall enough to let out enough water. What they also could have done is instead of wasting space putting those smaller gates in with dividing concrete in between them, they could have had fewer larger gates capable of handling the flow. Yes, taking into account the timeline of the event, height of the dam and each one of those dividers between the little dam gates, we're talking about trillions of gallons of extra water that could have flowed through there ahead of time and the water wouldn't have risen as high. I want to know who engineered this dam to begin with. Somebody was an absolute freaking idiot, period. You don't build a dam for "just enough" water release, you build it for the flood of the century. I'm also curious if the dam management started releasing as much water as possible *before* the heavy rain event to get a head start. This is supposed to be standard practice for all dams. They figure out how much rain approximately will come to the area and start releasing that amount ahead of time so that when it does rain, it just fills the reservoir back up. You don't wait until the dam is about to overtop before releasing max water. Also, 50 feet on either side of the downside of that dam should be extremely reinforced concrete. There shouldn't have been earth randomly there to just erode away. As soon as any erosion was noted, large boulders should have been pushed off from the top with heavy equipment to slow the erosion. I would take the back window out of the heavy equipment, tie a rope around the operator's waist and *then* have them push boulders in. That way if it collapsed, they'd have a decent chance of being yanked out of the back of the heavy equipment as it fell. Good way to save a life. They might get some injuries, sure.
Behind the Dam was full of Silt... No way of Silt Removal ... No overflow spillway in case the Dam Gates get plugged.. County owned the land on the east side of Dam and could have put one in but used it for a CASH COW. I'd Fire them all,,, they wanted this to happen.
It was built in 1910 😂😂
When it was built, it was ahead of its time and provided electricity to rural Minnesota. A time when the vast majority of rural areas in America didn't have the luxury.
Don’t think it had controllable spillways/gates, or even an emergency spillway which would have been needed during this rain event.
I hope the family who lost their home AND store are heavily compensated by the state.
Maybe if we'd stop paying grifters, the dam might have had some attention.
That Bridge is not going anywhere the Kassons are deep in the bedrock and still have the steel barriers around the cement base.. Those Cement base sits on top of a cement pad that is probably 3 to 4 ft reinforce cement of 2" thick re-bar.. Good luck moving that
They are actually sitting on top of bedrock. They are not anchored to it or driven down into it. They relied on the sediment around the piers for stability.
@@colinklang The riverbed sediment would do nothing for stability. They would not be just sitting on top.
Stay away!!
Waltz nothing but bal bal bal !!!!
From what I have read, the county owns the dam. If they choose to repair it or remove it, it's their choice. However, please do not come for to the federal government for the funds to do either. The county and it's residents reaped the rewards of the dam and should pay for whatever they decide to with it.
Repair what ? The dam is still there . The ground next to the dam eroded away. 😂
The river has cut a new channel. The river bank will stabilize over time. All that really needs to be done is try to save the bridge. Nothing needs to be done with the dam.
@@JackBean-rd4uo The dam is gone/failed. The spillway allowed it to empty slowly vs a massive flood but the dam no longer exists to hold back water. They will have to build another dam on the eroded side if they want water levels where they were.
@@tokomok You must be a Democrat. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@JackBean-rd4uo The dam is old and was in need of repair even before this incident. The county had done a feasibility study on the dam in 2021. You can read the story. The river has obviously cut a new channel which will probably force a new feasibility report. Thanks. www.blueearthcountymn.gov/1588/Future-of-the-Rapidan-Dam
Democrat gov
Does he have any of the Sure Plus money left to fix this ????????? No wait.. Demonrats decided to spend it all on the Cities,, and then spend some more and raised every ones taxes this last year and for years to come.