The Edenville Dam in Midland, MI (world HQ of DOW Chemical) collapses forcing thousands to evacuate
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Downhammer
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Any update on the chemical ponds and their contents? Floods suck but they happen and there's a pretty standard cleanup process but not when there's nasty shit in the water.
My wife's last semester of undergrad was canceled when her school town flooded. Corona closing schools and postponing graduations has been giving her flashbacks. She talks about people waterskiing behind pickups and stuff but there's no way I'd do that downstream of a chemical plant.
My wife's last semester of undergrad was canceled when her school town flooded. Corona closing schools and postponing graduations has been giving her flashbacks. She talks about people waterskiing behind pickups and stuff but there's no way I'd do that downstream of a chemical plant.
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Tarrant
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theres no way I’d do that anywhere. Sewers back up into flooded areas.
DOW is saying that no chemicals were released just their containment ponds...and they’ve been pretty silent about what things could have been found in those ponds so far, only that it doesn’t pose a threat to people or the environment. Which probably means we will find out otherwise once the EPA is in full clean up mode of the area.
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Chukzombi
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Dow Chemical is likely lying their ass off. they may not dump chemicals on the regular, but they probably do enough on the irregular to have tainted every bit of groundwater for miles.theres no way I’d do that anywhere. Sewers back up into flooded areas.
DOW is saying that no chemicals were released just their containment ponds...and they’ve been pretty silent about what things could have been found in those ponds so far, only that it doesn’t pose a threat to people or the environment. Which probably means we will find out otherwise once the EPA is in full clean up mode of the area.
take that from a guy who lives in a state where chemical dumping is a rite of passage.
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Are the major cities ultra-fucked or are they safe for now?
I am totally in the dark about how your lake-system works, are there feeder rivers that supply lakes which then filter down-stream and get bigger and bigger til they hit the greats?
I am totally in the dark about how your lake-system works, are there feeder rivers that supply lakes which then filter down-stream and get bigger and bigger til they hit the greats?
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Chukzombi
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This isnt a trump curse, its some kind of jesus curse. Maybe the heathens in Dearborn called the J man out too many times.
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Whitmer wanted to cut dam repair program; DNR denied $1.6M for Edenville dam
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s initial budget recommendation last year included a $150,000 cut to funding for a dam management grant program
amp.detroitnews.com
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iannis
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I've got some reservations call a 4 foot deep body of water a lake. Around here we call that a mosquito pit. People even dig their irrigation ponds deeper than that.
We need a new word for that type of structure.
I'm only picking that nit. The rest of it still sucks.
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juat that area was 4ftdeep, it was by the shore. Wixom topped out at 40ft and had over 80miles of coast line. It wasn’t small by any means.
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