"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Martin Brown '''newspam'''@n
ezumi.demon.co.uk scribeth thus
On 06/08/2019 05:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 05/08/2019 22:38, NY wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 05/08/2019 12:30, Cynic wrote:
Hopefully "lessons will be learned" and dam designs include means of
drainage for maintenance or emergency. A bloody big tap at the
bottom?

No lessons will be learnt. Virtue signalling is more important than
actually achieving reliable infrastructure.

Hopefully the company that did the annual safety inspection and
pronounced the dam "absolutely fine" is well insured - because all the
work over the past week will have cost a lot.

It probably WAS absolutely fine until the heavy rain

Maybe. Certainly the heavy rain stressed one edge of the spillway to a
point where it failed catastrophically. There may well have been a
latent fault that allowed water to get behind one of the panels.

I bet you the work hasnt cost even one useless wind turbine yet

I dunno. The flying time of the Chinnooks must be mounting up by now.
£24k an hour of flying time according to defence minister Bob Ainsworth:

https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-302234.html

And that was about a decade ago - Hansard entry:

https://publications.parliament.uk/p...ext/71126w0001
.htm

Military aircraft operating costs. Apache is nearly double that!


Well its good practice for the RAF lads after all they are more
accustomed to blowing dams up rather then mending 'em!..

They actually deliver stuff using choppers a lot more than they blow up
dams.