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       Dams in NY State are a Danger, words from the NY State Canal
       Corporation, sadly still no action
   DIR By: Doug K
       Date: December 29, 2021, 11:41 am
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       The NYS Canal Corporation Senior Director for Public Engagement
       reached out to the ECNA a few days ago and brought our attention
       to a recent Times Union article on the state of Dam Safety in
       New York State. It states pretty much along the same line of
       what the Canal Corporation has been saying about their 125+
       miles of earthen embankments.. overgrown, not properly
       maintained or inspected.
       You can use the link provided to read about it, it's not a great
       picture of community safety and has a few recent floods across
       the state highlighted. Makes you wonder where the Erie Canal
       Earthen Dams fall on the spectrum of safety.
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       Some of those past NY floods were the result of dams owned by
       the New York Power Authority, and it appears that the article
       also references that many dams fall under jurisdiction of the
       Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Those dams sometimes get a
       "pass"... by NYS DEC folks, as they are basically owned and used
       by "Power Companies" for the good of New York State.
  HTML https://www.timesunion.com/projects/2021/ny-dam-hazards/
       It's a good article to read but unsure why the Canal Corporation
       would point at such an obvious flaw in their Embankment
       Integrity Program.
       After all, the NYS Canal Corporation and NYPA raised the RED
       FLAG on Canal Safety with their Embankment Integrity Program in
       2018.
       And they are still watching their own embankments decay & fail,
       while they try to figure out how to stop "talking about Dam
       Safety" and start actually REPAIRING their unsafe embankment
       problem.
       It appears that ALL WORK on Canal Safety has been halted by a
       social media Facebook group who decided that public safety
       wasn't as important as "saving the environment", and
       conveniently changed the subject... leaving the NYS Canal
       Corporation looking for answers.
       Let's hope they figure out how to move forward with their Canal
       Integrity work before we are reading a news article about an
       Erie Canal Community being devastated by a "preventable flood"
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