Aging dams ready to burst

02/21/2011
By Victoria Schlesinger

A significant number of the country’s dams are not aging well and at least half of California’s 1,247 state-regulated dams are ranked “high hazard potential.” The Lake Isabella Dam east of Bakersfield is among those most in need of repair, but it is unclear where the $500,000 million needed to repair it will come from during hard economic times. [New York Times]

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