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Iraqi dam will blow shortly
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 3:18 pm
by nafod
One of those lurking stories that I predict will become huge. Turns out the Iraqis built the Mosul dam on bedrock of granulated sugar, and are endlessly pumping tons of grout under the dam to fill the eroded voids. At least, they were up until ISIS borrowed it for a while. It's been since 2014 that they've kept up with the erosion.
Kind of interesting tech-ish reading from 2007, where even back then shit was getting real. Can just imagine what is going on underneath the dam right now.
http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/elpubs/pdf/tr07-10.pdf
In plain English
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 71836.html
Re: Iraqi dam will blow shortly
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 4:38 pm
by hideouse
So Marsh Arab culture may see a revival?
Re: Iraqi dam will blow shortly
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 1:56 pm
by TerryB
Someone should just bomb the dam and get it over with.
Seriously. does anyone care?
Re: Iraqi dam will blow shortly
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 8:10 pm
by Turdacious
TerryB wrote:Someone should just bomb the dam and get it over with.
Seriously. does anyone care?
Just a guess, but a few million Iraqis probably do.
Re: Iraqi dam will blow shortly
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 12:05 am
by baffled
So, nope.
Re: Iraqi dam will blow shortly
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:59 am
by nafod
Figuring 500,000 dead, the rest treading water while on a quick float to Baghdad.
They're worried that bombing ISIS around Mosul will knock it loose.
Re: Iraqi dam will blow shortly
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:15 am
by buckethead
Water rules that region and is why Turkey reigns supreme
Re: Iraqi dam will blow shortly
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:00 pm
by nafod
Maybe more like a million dead?
“We used to have 300 people working 24 hours in three shifts but very few of these workers have come back. There are perhaps 30 people there now,” [Nasrat] Adamo said in a telephone interview from Sweden, where he works as a consultant. “The machines for grouting have been looted. There is no cement supply. They can do nothing. It is going from bad to worse, and it is urgent. All we can do is hold our hearts.”
At the same time as the bedrock is getting weaker and more porous, the water pressure on the dam is building as spring meltwater flows into the reservoir behind it. Giant gates that would normally be used to ease the pressure by allowing water to run through are stuck.
....“The fact that the bottom outlets are jammed is the thing that really worries us,” said [Nadhir] Ansari, now an engineering professor at the Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. “In April and May, there will be a lot more snow melting and it will bring plenty of water into the reservoir. The water level is now 308 metres but it will go up to over 330 metres. And the dam is not as before. The caverns underneath have increased. I don’t think the dam will withstand that pressure.
Re: Iraqi dam will blow shortly
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 9:00 pm
by Andy83
If they can't figure out a way to resolve that problem, then they should all drown. Stupid fucking muslims.
Re: Iraqi dam will blow shortly
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 11:00 pm
by TerryB
All this waiting is killing me!
Re: Iraqi dam will blow shortly
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 11:45 pm
by DARTH
Seeing as they never signed a fo0rce agreement with them and Obama said we were done, this is not our problem and I can't wait to see all the Jawas trying to learn how to swim, OTJ.
Learn to surf!