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The recent Russian incident, in which several people were killed in an explosion that took place inside a Soviet-era dam, has again brought into highlight the challenges facing dams in the US as well. With most of them older than half a century, these constructions are right now beginning to show signs of fatigue, and endanger thousands of people living below their floodgates. If when they were first constructed they posed no danger at all, because they were built in remote areas, this is no longer the case. Sprawling cities and development areas are located near most of the large ones, Wired reports. According to the latest report released by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the 140 dams that were repaired last year were replaced in 2009 by about 368 others, which need large-scale repairs. In this year's report on the state of the country's infrastructure, US engineers gave dams as a category a “D,” because of the massive risks they posed to the civilian popu!
lation living downstream. They would also deprive the nation of a large part of its electricity, if they were to go offline. “With the huge number of dams getting older every day, it’s becoming a bigger and bigger problem. The policing of maintenance and filing of inspection records is relatively haphazard, not because of lack of focu...
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