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Cincydawg

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #56 on: September 05, 2017, 04:26:11 PM »
I'm delighted to be retired.  As I think back on things, I realize that any time our division got into any regulatory issue, the director would call me, and I was not in regulatory at all.

Apparently they thought I could read that morass of molasses.
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« Reply #57 on: September 05, 2017, 04:43:26 PM »
Oh, there are still problems. Like, when, say a Crook County requirement conflicts with an Illannoy requirement.

Crap like that happens a lot. I usually go with the higher governing body at that point.
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« Reply #58 on: September 08, 2017, 12:29:38 PM »
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« Reply #59 on: September 08, 2017, 01:45:43 PM »
I would be a good idea to stop selling flood insurance for flood prone property and stop bailing out those who choose to locate there anyway.  How would one define such a no insurance available flood prone area?   Just about anywhere but a hill top would flood if you get 30" of rain in 36 hrs.
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« Reply #60 on: September 08, 2017, 02:26:32 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on August 29, 2017, 01:17:31 PM
I know I'm correct. I do floodplain work for a living.

The entire Mississippi is constrained by levees. Start there.
I didn't realize that.  We're definitely in related fields.  I work for a large federal agency that builds dams and levees.
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« Reply #61 on: September 08, 2017, 02:33:38 PM »
Grrr...

I've spent my career trying to get them removed.

I'm a PE and a PLS. I'm also a CFM, for whatever that fluff credential is worth.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #62 on: September 08, 2017, 03:05:38 PM »
Well, we don't build them much, anymore.  Mostly making sure the ones that are already there are safe.
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« Reply #63 on: September 08, 2017, 03:32:13 PM »
The safest dam is a removed dam.  :72:
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #64 on: September 08, 2017, 04:19:46 PM »
Badge absolutely HATES hydroelectricity!
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #65 on: September 09, 2017, 10:38:55 AM »
Quote from: DevilFroggy on September 08, 2017, 04:19:46 PM
Badge absolutely HATES hydroelectricity!
The interesting thing is that most dams don't produce electricity (only 3% of them in the USA). I realize most of them were built 50+ years ago and probably aren't easy to retrofit, but I would think it's still cheaper than other sources of new generation.
Conversely, Canada gets 60% of its electricity from hydro power.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #66 on: September 19, 2017, 08:09:35 AM »
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #67 on: September 20, 2017, 07:02:03 AM »
I think every "large dam" has a hydroelectric power station associated with it in the US.    One can of course count dams and many of them will be rather on the small side.  Maybe there is one somewhere 100 feet tall or more without a power plant, but not many.

Dams on the Ohio River, for example, are for navigation, with locks, and they were maybe 50 feet high, and not enough reason to try and generate power from that.

Hydro is basically tapped out in the US today, with more dams disappearing for environmental reasons than being built (which is zero for larger dams).  The TVA area has a lot of dams of course, many built in part for flood control.  Any areas left where a dam might generate power are protected areas.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #68 on: September 20, 2017, 11:54:17 AM »
Many of the dams on the Ohio do generate power, although their primary purpose is navigation.  There are actually several that are over 100 feet high that do not have hydropower.  These are mostly tall embankment dams, designed for flood control, that don't have much inflow during non-flood level events.  Several of those are also "dry dams", meaning they do not have a lake behind them except after heavy rain.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #69 on: September 20, 2017, 12:16:11 PM »
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1059963923

Interesting.  It looks like four of them generate power, or will when outfitted with turbines.  Didn't know that.

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