Cumberland The Big Rise

[Les Young]

Demodan, You've got to be kidding me. It's worth every effort the Corps can give to hold back as much as possible. It would be awful to unleash all that water on the folks that are in worse shape than we are. If the dam breaks it will be devestating, but THERE SHOULD BE WAYMORE CONCERN FOR HUMAN LIFE THAH YOU EVIDENTLY HAVE !!! You've got some serious issues.

[Redskeeter]

Demodan, You've got to be kidding me. It's worth every effort the Corps can give to hold back as much as possible. It would be awful to unleash all that water on the folks that are in worse shape than we are. If the dam breaks it will be devestating, but THERE SHOULD BE WAYMORE CONCERN FOR HUMAN LIFE THAH YOU EVIDENTLY HAVE !!! You've got some serious issues.

Les I dont think he was showing a lack of concern of human life but was merely stating that if the dam has a possibility of failure with all that water behind it that they should be letting as much water out as they can. Yes there would be some property destroyed down river but, if the dam broke with all that water behind it there would be nothing left of Celina, Burkesville, most of Nashville, and many other small communities along the way.

[smashdn]

Clarksville TN is in bad shape now too.

[demodan]

Demodan, You've got to be kidding me. It's worth every effort the Corps can give to hold back as much as possible. It would be awful to unleash all that water on the folks that are in worse shape than we are. If the dam breaks it will be devestating, but THERE SHOULD BE WAYMORE CONCERN FOR HUMAN LIFE THAH YOU EVIDENTLY HAVE !!! You've got some serious issues.

Thanks Les Young...I appricate your assessment of me. In my own deffense..I have much concern over human life..that is why my job has me in a trama unit ...where we save lives everyday; and that I've spent 12 years of my life educating and training to help others that are in a crisis??...Yea, I have no regard of human life, yea, right?... We all have issues dude...? But you making this personal is out of line for the context..Im just saying...that if the dam is in the bad shape that we are being told that it is, and they have to drop the water level for years on end... and the millions "we" are spending on this project....Yet it can hold back maybe one of the quickest rises in water level in many years on the lake...and it can be held back with more to come for days, "to help out those in need below"....Then how bad is it dam...really?? Evedently there is no cause for alarm at the dam...becouse if it was...then they wouldn't have a choice but to open all gates...for the sake of others...dig. It just doesn't add up to me...even I with my issues...and little regard for human life...I can connect the dots...oh...you can kiss my bass!

[Duayne]

From what I have read, the Dam has is leaking. The more pressure on the dam, the more errosion from the leak. The reason to keep the dam lower is to minimize the pressure, thus minimize the amount of errosion until they can fortify the leak area plus all of the like area. This dam has held this amount of water and more in the past and I do not think they are worried about it busting today. They are more concerned with what may happen in the future if it goes unchecked. I would also imagine there is a cost to the currrent structure based on the intrution for the repairs. I would hope they would have factored in this sort of short term situation in their plans.