Water in a key California reservoir will fall so low this summer that its hydroelectric power plant will be forced to shut down for the first time, officials said Thursday, straining the state's already-taxed electric grid.
This the same dam that nearly collapsed 4 years ago due to a combination of lack of maintenance, unaddressed design flaws and climate change related flooding.
Between megadrought, fires and whiplash flooding, I fear California is going to see a very calamitous event in the next 10-15 years - be it a significant population center being lost, or massive crop failure in the Central Valley. There’s so many points of infrastructural weakness and so many opportunities for them to be overwhelmed.
And that’s not even considering earthquakes or domestic terrorists acting on these points of weakness!
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This the same dam that nearly collapsed 4 years ago due to a combination of lack of maintenance, unaddressed design flaws and climate change related flooding.
Between megadrought, fires and whiplash flooding, I fear California is going to see a very calamitous event in the next 10-15 years - be it a significant population center being lost, or massive crop failure in the Central Valley. There’s so many points of infrastructural weakness and so many opportunities for them to be overwhelmed.
And that’s not even considering earthquakes or domestic terrorists acting on these points of weakness!
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