So, it's starting to look like the State of Michigan required the operators of the Edenville Dam (The one that just failed in Midland in a rather horrific and spectacular fashion) to keep water levels higher than was safe due to the risk to freshwater mussels.
The state actually took the Dam operators to court on May 1, and was fining them for failing to keep the water levels high, rendering it susceptible to the collapse - long after the Feds had pulled its power operating license in 2018 due to its inability to handle flood-level waters.
Let's repeat that: The state pressured the operators to keep the lake levels high this April and sued them to make them do so this month.
Yep, the safety of the populace and an increase risk of the damn collapsing was traded in favor of preserving the population of freshwater mussels in Wixom Lake.
The Detroit News: Dangers of Edenville dam failure evaded state scrutiny
Is there any decision our current state government can't mess up?
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Of course the state will suffer no consequences for their incompetence. The dam owners, builders and engineers; however will be sued into bankruptcy and excoriated in public.
Could this become Wretched's "Flint Water Crisis"
"Evaded State Scrutiny"??
More the state IGNORED the issues with the dam....
This is the Michigan version of what California did to PG&E. Forcing them to do shady things and not do proper things and then turn around and blame the company. Yay.
Every death, every loss of business, every injury, every loss of property, should be criminally charged to the state bureaucrats that caused it. But they won't.
I'm hearing you are also on fire. You guys are definately going for the murder hornets award.
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