Interesting stuff over at the Watershed Post about the $400 million reconstruction project on the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County (here's a Daily Gazette photoset). Some of the numbers involved kind of make your head swim -- the 87-year-old dam holds the Schoharie Creek to form the 17.6-billion-gallon Schoharie Reservoir, one of the stores of drinking water for New York City.
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Based on the numbers given, if the dam fails, it will spill 877,000 gallons of water per second for over 5 1/2 hours before it is empty.
Dam, that's a lotta water.
... said komradebob on Apr 4, 2013 at 4:43 PM | link