Michigan Dam(s) Fail! Tittabawassee River.

It is Wednesday, May 20, my name is Juan Brown, you are watching the Blanco Lirio channel and the latest news that both the Edenvale, the dam at Wixom Reservoir, the Edenvale Dam and the Sanford Dam have apparently

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ed, the associated emergency spillways with these two dams they couldn't keep up with the flooding of water from the T tubule of the Wasi River in Michigan, let's go in and look at Google Maps and show you what's happening today. The Bossy River begins. The headwaters begin north of Highway 30 and flow into the first of a series. Of four reservoirs, the first reservoir is Secord Lake, whose dam and spillway structure are located here here is the concrete structure of the closed spillway and here is the dam filled with dirt on both sides of the dated spillway structure and I believe that This section is the emergency spillway structure a little lower than the rest of the earth filled dam and closed structure, the water then flows back into the

river

and down to the next lake, Smallwood Lake, whose dam is located just here with a closed concrete spillway structure.

I think there may be a small power plant right here. earth filled dam and here to the left of the earth filled dam looking downstream would be the emergency spillway structure again located slightly lower than the rest of the dam, this series of reservoirs are controlled by earth filled dams and if There is something we learned during the Oroville Dam experience is that if an earth-filled dam overflows, it will

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, so to protect your earth-filled dam, your normal spillway is protected and the dam is protected by a spillway. of emergency. An emergency spillway is just a lower part of a lower dam. that the rest of the dam structure to allow water to flow in an uncontrolled manner to prevent water from overtaking the rest of the dam filled with earth an emergency spillway is just that to be used in case of an emergency and what it does as a slow-acting fuse, it buys time, it gives time for a more orderly evacuation of the population below the dam, rather than a sudden and completely uncontainable release of all the water from the main dam back into the

river

and the third lake in the Wixom Lake and Edenvale Dam series now Wixom Lake is bisected by Highway 30 here this Highway 30 is built on a dam structure with a small water passage under this bridge requiring two spillway structures closed here is the first closed concrete spillway structure and here is the second closed concrete spillway structure located right here with a small power plant from the guys electric company in the middle okay, on this whole side of the lake it is The dam is full of earth and around here I think there is its emergency spillway structure for this.

Again, this dam is slightly lower than the rest of the dam structure, dam structure and spillway to allow for uncontained emergency water flow in the event this reservoir overflows and this is what it looked like yesterday , May 19, during a flyover below the Edenvale Dam and Wixom Reservoir. is the last reservoir, the Sanford Dam and the reservoir located right here, which is apparently also being overwhelmed right now here is their dam filled with dirt here is their concrete spillway structure closed another power plant located here and I believe this would be their emergency spillway structure located right here but apparently this has also been overwhelmed and this dam has failed so the water continues downstream to the city of Midland which is flooding right now the T-tubule The Wasi River converges with the Shiawassee River forming the Saginaw River which runs through the center of Saginaw Michigan towards Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron, so it appears that both the Edenvale Dam and the Sanford Dam (the last two dams in that series of four lakes) are failing right now, reminding us all to heed warnings from emergency services and get out of the way.

If someone who lives in a flood control area needs to have their own flood insurance, your normal home insurance won't insure you in the event of a flood, you need separate insurance for this, if you don't have it you're out of luck guys . The hydroelectric company that owns these four dams has been criticized by FERC for precisely this reason: not having sufficient emergency flood protection on these 50-plus-year-old, earth-filled dams. This is a lesson we have all learned here in California and our spillway dam structures. They are slowly being upgraded throughout the state of California to accommodate higher degrees of flooding and to be able to retain greater control of the reservoir during flood situations.

That is the main reason for spillways and emergency spillways is to retain control of the reservoir once it is lost. reservoir and water control, if the water ever exceeds an earth filled dam, that earth filled dam will fail, so look forward to your comments below from anyone who is intimately familiar with these dam structures or with hydropower, but the main thing It's getting out of the way. of this water at this time we will receive more updates as this situation develops. We look forward to any aerial or drone video of this that we can share with you later.

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