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My life’s greatest dream is to destroy a Dam so here’s a ranked list of the ideal Dams to destroy

5. Mossyrock Dam

Destroyability: 4/10, sorry neighbors

Impact: 7/10. Satisfying, and devastating to the most conservative county in Washington State. They’ll beg Seattle for money to restore the valley

4. The Dalles Dam

Destroyability: 6/10, it’ll get taken out by an earthquake soon anyway. Will probably cause a lot of devastation to humans

Impact: 10/10 restoring Celilo Falls to its natural glory, uncovering a cultural landmark in use for over 15,000 years by native Americans is priceless.

3. Any of the Lower Snake River Dams

Destroyability: 4/10, very likely to impact (kill) people and their homes

Impact: 10/10 orgasmic salmon freeing experience

2. Hoover Dam

Excellent, iconic, and devastating on a cultural level.

Destroyability: 0/10 I literally don’t know how I would ever attempt to destroy this baby.

Impact: 10/10 history book making dam destruction

1. Glen Canyon Dam

Top tier, fueled by my love of Katie Lee, the goddess of Glen Canyon who spent a summer with her two friends documenting and exploring as much of Glen Canyon as possible before it was flooded to Lake Powell. Would destroy vacations for rich people and free a beautiful natural wonder 10/10 top Dam.

Destroyability: 2/10. Very hard. Well monitored. Lorge. Top 5 Dam for amount of water stored.

Impact: 10/10 I would weep tears of joy and greet Katie Lee in the afterlife with pride

curse ao3 for making me read the words turbo cockslut with my big brown eyes

for the first time since senior year, the song was not about her

Using the chironomid index to assess the impact of human activities on some agro-pastoral dams in the Tchologo region of Northern Ivory Coast

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The aim of this study is to assess the impact of human activities on water quality using the chironomid index of aquatic macroinvertebrates. The study was carried out in the Tchologo region, where five agro-pastoral dams were studied: Mambiadougou, Noumousso Torla, Korokara in Ouangolo-dougou and Sambakaha in Ferkessédougou department. Data were collected by season from June 2016 to…

Using the chironomid index to assess the impact of human activities on some agro-pastoral dams in the Tchologo region of Northern Ivory Coast

Dams and bridges, northwest US

Did I post the beaver dam yet

Me: wow, the creek is really high! I wonder if there’s a beaver dam?

*5 seconds later* oh, yep, there it is!

(it’s hard to tell in the pic, but this dam has raised the creek level by like, 3 ft)

Public domain!

[ID: A photo of a brown creek with a beaver dam made of layered logs and stick crossing the middle, with some fallen leaves floating in the upper section. There is a forest on the other side of the creek, and yellow grass in the forgeound. End ID.]

True story. Believe it or Not! I went over this dam in high water in early summer, 1974. My cousin and I were fishing in a rubber raft up stream in the reservoir. We didn’t realize our anchor was drifting, until it was too late. We both jumped out of the raft. My cousin made it to a cement bulkhead and was hanging onto rebar. There was a dam tender house there at the time, and passerby’s in a car alerted them of what they saw. I went over, and thought it was the end. I held my breath. It was like being in a washing machine, being tossed in the air, then back under. The people in the house found me down river and brought me to hospital in Leavenworth. I lost a chunk of meat out of my heel since I went over feet first. We had fished there many times before, but not in high water. STUPID STUPID STUPID!!

Dams of Northern California #22: Lyons Dam
Location: Tuolumne County, near Stanislaus National Forest
Type: Concrete single-arch
Height: 132 ft (40 m)
Length: 535 ft (163 m)
Reservoir capacity: 7,894.28 megalitres
Built: Opened 1916
Photo: Inklein from Wikipedia

2,500 ‘high-risk’ U.S. dams are sinking into the ground

‘No water, no life’: Iraq’s Tigris River in danger of disappearing

As a leader of one of the oldest gnostic religions in the world, Sheikh Nidham Kreidi al-Sabahi must use only water taken from a flowing river, even for drinking.

The 68-year-old has a long grey beard hanging over his simple tan robe and a white cap covering his equally long hair, which sheikhs are forbidden from cutting. He says he has never got ill from drinking water from the Tigris River and believes that as long as the water is flowing, it is clean. But the truth is that soon it may not be flowing at all.

Iraq’s famed Tigris is heavily polluted and at risk of drying up. Unless urgent action is taken to save the river, life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banks.“No water, no life,” says Sheikh Nidham, a Mandaean religious leader living in the southern Iraqi city of Amarah, on the banks of the river in which he has been regularly immersed since he was a month old.

Mandaeans are members of one of the oldest gnostic religions in the world. Southern Iraq has been their homeland for more than a thousand years, particularly in Maysan province. Amarah, the provincial capital, is built around the Tigris. Water is central to their faith and every major life event requires ritual purification. Marriage ceremonies begin in water, and before drawing their last breath, Mandaeans should be taken to the river for a final cleansing.

“For our religion, the importance of water is like air. Without water, life wouldn’t exist. At the beginning of creation, Adam was the first man on Earth. Before Adam there was water, and water was one of the elements that created Adam,” Sheikh Nidham explains.

The Tigris is one of the two famous rivers that cradle Mesopotamia and once formed part of the “fertile crescent”. The river rises in south-east Turkey, and runs the length of Iraq, through its two largest cities, Mosul and Baghdad, until it joins the Euphrates; together, as the Shatt al-Arab, they finish their journey south to the Gulf.

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hot take if u don’t fw established relationship fics or boring domestic fics or found family fics you’ll never find satisfaction in life…

was going to sleep early today; unfortunately unearthed a new ao3 author with 152 works of various sizes…see y'all in three days

beefin’ with my chick while i’m in jail!

Dams of Northern California #21: Tulloch Dam
Location: Stanislaus River
Type: Concrete gravity
Height: 205 ft (62 m)
Length: 1,914 ft (583 m)
Reservoir capacity: 84370.16 megalitres
Built: Completed 1958
Photo: Renee Viehmann

Tara Lohan: Why America Is Removing Thousands of Dams and Letting Rivers Run Free

Glines Canyon Dam Removal, February 23 2012, Washington state. (National Park Service)

After centuries of dam building, a nationwide movement to dismantle these aging barriers is showing how free-flowing rivers can restore ecosystems, improve safety, and reconnect people with nature.

With more than 550,000 dams in the United States, free-flowing rivers are an endangered species. We’ve dammed,…

Tara Lohan: Why America Is Removing Thousands of Dams and Letting Rivers Run Free

A dam is a structure constructed across a river or other type. It holds water to slow down and control the flow of water. Dams can be any size or shape and typically consist of concrete, stone, or soil. #dams #types #engineering

Dams: Types, Construction, Advantages & Disadvantages Explained With Real Examples

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Dams of Northern California #20: Friant Dam
Location: On the border of Madera and Fresno Counties
Type: Concrete gravity
Height: 319 ft (97 m)
Length: 3,488 ft (1,063 m)
Reservoir capacity: 642,061.83 megalitres
Built: 1937-1942
Photo: Pete Fickenscher

oggi, 12 novembre, a bologna: “dalla documentazione alla vociferazione” (incontro con enzo minarelli)

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L’incontro, organizzato nell’ambito del laboratorio di Linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea del DAMS di Bologna, ruota attorno al percorso artistico, poetico e performativo di Enzo Minarelli, autore del Manifesto della Polipoesia (1987). Sarà questa l’occasione per conoscere gli aspetti più profondi della sua poetica a partire dalla presentazione di tre recenti…

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