On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 10:16:09 -0400, "P.Fritz"
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:56:37 -0400, "NOYB" wrote:


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 2 Jun 2005 15:03:30 -0700, wrote:

~~ snippage ~~

Bet your sweet bippy that if that inlet were in Iraq it would be
dredged out, and right now, by Cheney's buddies at Haliburton under a
no-bid contract and at the rate of about $1mm a scoop. :-(

I'll be totally honest - I'm starting to think that pouring all this
money into Iraq is a bad idea. I was talking to an Army Corps
engineer the other day over at the damn and she told me that their
budget was cut back 30% for dam maintenance - and this is the major
flood control dam for the Shetucket/Quinebaug/French river complex
that flows through Putnam - that thing goes it's good bye Putnam.

Less than 9,000 people live in Putnam. Think of the greater good. ;)

It actually happened in 1955 which is why the dam in West Thompson was
built in the first place. I have some pictures the area devastated in
'55 that would amaze you. The only buildings left standing in the
path of the flood were the Belding Thread Mill and the Belding Mill
complex about a mile downstream. Everything for a distance of two and
a half miles long and half mile wide was gone.

Incredible.

Simple solution, don't build in a flood plain...... :-)

Sort of like people that build next to an airport and complain about the
noise ;-)

I suppose you could think of it like that, but this was the
proverbial 100 year flood - statistically happens every 100 years.

Later,

Tom