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2016-03-04 Iraq

‘Mosul dam could fail at any time, killing 1m people’

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Posted by Fred 2016-03-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1 I doubt the Kurds will be too bothered as much of the land flooded was Kurdish and hardly any Kurds are at risk downstream.

Posted by phil_b 2016-03-04 06:13|| 2016-03-04 06:13|| Front Page Top

#2 with a 20-metre-high flood wave hitting the city of Mosul and then rolling on down the Tigris valley through Tikrit and Samarra to Baghdad.

Flush twice.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-04 08:30|| 2016-03-04 08:30|| Front Page Top

#3 "I went to visit the site and saw what kind of stone there was there. A lot of gypsum and anhydrite, which are very soluble. I was really concerned; I told the director general. He said: ‘Don’t worry. This is all being taken care of.’"

"By Saddam's Moustache, it will be fine!"

Posted by Frank G 2016-03-04 09:04|| 2016-03-04 09:04|| Front Page Top

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-03-04 09:35|| 2016-03-04 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Any media companies putting fixed cameras in place on the chance of great disaster footage?

Posted by 3dc 2016-03-04 09:47|| 2016-03-04 09:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Years back there were reports that the Aswan Dam was structurally unsound. A cry went out to get the CIA to do a study. The response, 'we've already done one.' Five will get you ten that the CIA also has a study on the Mosul Dam.

Posted by Bugs Unaviper5548 2016-03-04 10:08|| 2016-03-04 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Between geology, war, lack of maintenance, and few workers, it is my professional opinion that they are fooked.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-03-04 10:12|| 2016-03-04 10:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Inshallah

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-04 12:43|| 2016-03-04 12:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Teton Dam Failure video Two minutes of explanation, then about 40 seconds of flooding.

At 11:55 a.m. MDT (UTC-17:55), the crest of the dam sagged and collapsed into the reservoir; two minutes later the remainder of the right-bank third of the main dam wall disintegrated. Over 2,000,000 cubic feet per second (57,000 m3/s) of sediment-filled water emptied through the breach into the remaining 6 miles (10 km) of the Teton River canyon, after which the flood spread out and shallowed on the Snake River Plain. By 8:00 p.m. that evening, the reservoir had completely emptied, although over two-thirds of the dam wall remained standing. Wikipedia

Only 11 dead, but this was in eastern Idaho.

Posted by Bobby 2016-03-04 13:05|| 2016-03-04 13:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Who is currently downstream and why aren't they moving out of the floodplain? Are they really farmers taking advantage of the fertile soil? Seems unlikely in that area.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-03-04 14:48|| 2016-03-04 14:48|| Front Page Top

#11 ISIS tried to retake the dam today.

Posted by phil_b 2016-03-04 19:24|| 2016-03-04 19:24|| Front Page Top

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