Fotos esclarecedoras de los acontecimientos. El cuerpo de Ingenieros Militares de EEUU espera seguir liberando agua de las presas río arriba en el Missouri, para evitar la rotura de las mismas, lo que llevará el registro de altura del agua a nuevos máximos a lo largo del resto del cauce, que continuará así hasta mediados de agosto. Hoy anuncian que las liberaciones derivadas de la presa de Gavins Point aumentarán otro 7 por ciento el caudal del río con 160.000 metros cúbicos por segundo.
por dios, que alguien le diga que poner tanto Wordart en las fotos es como escribir con Comic Sans... me sangran los ojos!!! parece un powerpoint de 3r EGB
"At 1,008.5 feet, the technical support center used by emergency technicians would have been inundated... At 1,010 feet, water would begin to enter the auxiliary building, "shorting power and submerging pumps. The plant could then experience a station blackout with core damage estimated within 15 to 18 hours..." (NYT)
The Corps reported in early June that they would gradually increase releases through the dams on the river, including a record 150,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) from the last dam, Gavins Point, near Yankton, S.D., as a result of more than 300% normal snowpack in the mountains and excessive rainfall across the Dakotas and Missouri River basin.
As bad as it's been, the hardest parts are still ahead, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the river system's managers.
“It's going to be a devastating season in terms of how the levees do,” said Brig. Gen. John McMahon, commander of the corps' Northwestern Division. “There's going to be a lot of pain and suffering.”
Flood waters continue to increase into Minot, N.D., with about 15-20% of the city inundated with water and flood waters expected to increase in the coming days. About 12,000 residents have been evacuated from the previously-identified flood zones. Officials are considering additional evacuations as projections worsen. Water is flowing... toward Minot from Canada faster than ever, due to record water levels upstream. The current forecast is for the crest to reach between 1,564 and 1,565 feet above sea level sometime during the overnight hours of June 25-26, and continuing through June 30. This crest would be more than 6 feet above record flood stage, and 9 feet above major flood stage.
Bernard Shanks, an adviser to the Resource Renewal Institute, says the Fort Peck Dam and five others along the Missouri are already full with the Army Corps of Engineers releasing record amounts of water to prepare for snow-melt and heavy rain up-river.
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“It would be the most epic man-made disaster in the United States,” Shanks replied bluntly.
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There is a possibility a failure of Fort Peck Dam could lead to a domino-like collapse of all five downstream dams. It probably would wreck every bridge, highway, pipeline and power line and split the heartland of the nation, leaving a gap 1,500 miles wide. Countless sewage treatment plants, toxic waste sites and even Superfund sites would be flushed downstream. The death toll and blow to our economy would be ghastly.
Rising water from the Missouri River has begun flowing into a sewage lagoon at Fort Calhoun Station. A partial bypass was recently put in place to divert water that had leaked into a sanitary wastewater lift station, allowing the continuation of most of the flow to the sanitary lagoons. The water overtopping the sewage lagoon this week will be considered a continuation of the previous bypass issue by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.
A sign has been erected in the area around the Administration Building advising personnel to stay clear of the discharge that is occurring. For health and safety reasons, all individuals are cautioned to avoid contact with any flood water.
Another Missouri River levee has failed in northwest Missouri, prompting evacuations in a mostly rural area of the state.
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At least two other levees in northwest Missouri failed this month, and others have been overrun by floodwater. Officials predict the river will remain overfull into August, so more levee problems are likely.
A levee three-miles upstream from the Cooper Nuclear Station at Brownville failed Thursday night, but authorities said the incident presented no threat to the nuclear plant.
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This is a large breach and water will be moving rapidly.
The weather service's Climate Prediction Center issued its three-month outlook for rain on June 16. Above-normal rain was anticipated over a large swath of the Great Plains covering much of the Dakotas, Iowa and Nebraska.
In the worst-case scenario, that rain would gush into the already full river system and produce widespread, near-record flooding from Kansas City to St. Louis.
A case in point: a mere 2 to 3 inches of rain last week in northern Missouri pushed the Mississippi River up 6 feet within days near Hannibal. In Minot, the Souris is expected to top a city record set in 1881 by more than 5 feet.
On Thursday, the province revised its prediction of when the once-tranquil river would peak in Manitoba. Now, the Souris is expected to reach its crest in Wawanesa between July 7 and 9, more than a week earlier than expected.
A storm expected to develop today over the Souris River in Saskatchewan, the United States and southwestern Manitoba, which could dump up to 30 millimetres of water on the saturated ground, won't help the river slow down.
The river, which stood 1,556 feet above sea level early Friday, is expected to break the 1881 record of 1,558 feet by mid-morning and peak at 1564.5 feet late Saturday or early Sunday.
DoD News Briefing: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
...and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.
The Missouri River rose to within 18 inches of forcing the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in southeast
Nebraska, but stopped and ebbed slightly.
The river has to hit 902 feet above sea level at Brownville before officials will shut down the Cooper Nuclear Plant.
Nebraska Public Power District spokesman Mark Becker says the river rose to 900.56 feet on Sunday, then dropped to 900.4 feet later in the day and remained at that level Monday morning.
Becker says the plant is operating at full capacity.
#18 Y si estuviera en japonés, la pegamos en japonés también, ¿no?. No cuesta nada usar un traductor en línea y comentar en castellano. Para leer hilos en inglés la gente puede ir a otros sitios.
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Alerta en Estados Unidos por unas inundaciones que afectan a dos centrales nucleares
Alerta en Estados Unidos por unas inundaciones que...
20minutos.es#1 Es relacionada.
Este envío es de fotografías !!!
#2 No es una fuente de agua, es un río desbordado y una central nuclear en inundación...
Lo que sí sé es que las fotos donde se ve el agua pasando por debajo de las barreras es muy, pero que muy interesante...
P.D.
Miren con mucha atención las fotos cuyo texto al pie es:
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant : Aqua Dam et Transformers
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station : Breaker 345 kV Protection (sandbags!)
por dios, que alguien le diga que poner tanto Wordart en las fotos es como escribir con Comic Sans... me sangran los ojos!!! parece un powerpoint de 3r EGB
#5 Ya te digo.
¿Pero que fuente es esta?
The current river level is just below 1007 feet.
"At 1,008.5 feet, the technical support center used by emergency technicians would have been inundated... At 1,010 feet, water would begin to enter the auxiliary building, "shorting power and submerging pumps. The plant could then experience a station blackout with core damage estimated within 15 to 18 hours..." (NYT)
http://www.counterpunch.org/giambrone06272011.html
Ya hay edificios inundados en la central nuclear
colapsa-anillo-contencion-fort-calhoun-eng/00040
Colapsa el anillo de contención de Fort Calhoun [E...
news.yahoo.comMissouri River Releases Continue to Rise
http://mobile.nebraskafarmer.com/main.aspx?ascxid=cmsNewsStory&rmid=0&rascxid=&args=&rargs=9&dt=634447542184108000&lid=a8yebu2d9qxnz7lo&adms=634447542182548000X2dd4361f7c&cmsSid=50595&cmsScid=9
The Corps reported in early June that they would gradually increase releases through the dams on the river, including a record 150,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) from the last dam, Gavins Point, near Yankton, S.D., as a result of more than 300% normal snowpack in the mountains and excessive rainfall across the Dakotas and Missouri River basin.
As bad as it's been, the hardest parts are still ahead, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the river system's managers.
“It's going to be a devastating season in terms of how the levees do,” said Brig. Gen. John McMahon, commander of the corps' Northwestern Division. “There's going to be a lot of pain and suffering.”
http://www.omaha.com/article/20110626/NEWS01/706269898/0#flooding-the-worst-is-yet-to-come
OPPD: Water also leaking around concrete berm surrounding Ft. Calhoun nuke plant’s main transformers
http://enenews.com/oppd-water-also-leaking-around-concrete-berm-surrounding-ft-calhouns-main-transformers
Auxiliary building at Ft. Calhoun surrounded by water after berm failure — NRC letter said if water enters auxilary building, could have station blackout with core damage in hours
http://enenews.com/auxiliary-building-ft-calhoun-surrounded-water-nrc-letter-water-enters-auxilary-building-could-station-blackout-core-damage-hours
Flood waters continue to increase into Minot, N.D., with about 15-20% of the city inundated with water and flood waters expected to increase in the coming days. About 12,000 residents have been evacuated from the previously-identified flood zones. Officials are considering additional evacuations as projections worsen. Water is flowing... toward Minot from Canada faster than ever, due to record water levels upstream. The current forecast is for the crest to reach between 1,564 and 1,565 feet above sea level sometime during the overnight hours of June 25-26, and continuing through June 30. This crest would be more than 6 feet above record flood stage, and 9 feet above major flood stage.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bis/
Missouri River Flyover of Nuclear Plant (NE) and Devastation - June 23, 2011
en realidad es
http://www.oppd.com/AboutUs/NewsEvents/NewsroomPhotos/22_000781
Expert Warns Missouri River Could See “Flood of Biblical Proportions”
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2011/06/08/expert-warns-missouri-river-could-see-flood-of-biblical-proportions/
Bernard Shanks, an adviser to the Resource Renewal Institute, says the Fort Peck Dam and five others along the Missouri are already full with the Army Corps of Engineers releasing record amounts of water to prepare for snow-melt and heavy rain up-river.
...
“It would be the most epic man-made disaster in the United States,” Shanks replied bluntly.
------------
There is a possibility a failure of Fort Peck Dam could lead to a domino-like collapse of all five downstream dams. It probably would wreck every bridge, highway, pipeline and power line and split the heartland of the nation, leaving a gap 1,500 miles wide. Countless sewage treatment plants, toxic waste sites and even Superfund sites would be flushed downstream. The death toll and blow to our economy would be ghastly.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/article_2b1eeca2-e701-51dd-83c2-f7bcc81845a4.html
Floodwater Flowing into Sewage Lagoon at Fort Calhoun Station
http://www.oppd.com/AboutUs/NewsEvents/Newsroom/22_000812#flow_062311
Rising water from the Missouri River has begun flowing into a sewage lagoon at Fort Calhoun Station. A partial bypass was recently put in place to divert water that had leaked into a sanitary wastewater lift station, allowing the continuation of most of the flow to the sanitary lagoons. The water overtopping the sewage lagoon this week will be considered a continuation of the previous bypass issue by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.
A sign has been erected in the area around the Administration Building advising personnel to stay clear of the discharge that is occurring. For health and safety reasons, all individuals are cautioned to avoid contact with any flood water.
Another Missouri River levee has failed in northwest Missouri, prompting evacuations in a mostly rural area of the state.
...
At least two other levees in northwest Missouri failed this month, and others have been overrun by floodwater. Officials predict the river will remain overfull into August, so more levee problems are likely.
http://www.newstalkradiowhio.com/news/ap/aerospace/ap-top-missouri-news-at-258-am-cdt/nCy7f/
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A levee three-miles upstream from the Cooper Nuclear Station at Brownville failed Thursday night, but authorities said the incident presented no threat to the nuclear plant.
...
This is a large breach and water will be moving rapidly.
http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2011/06/24/4e0444e29756b
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Soggy-Midwest-faces-new-summer-threat-more-rain-1437329.php
The weather service's Climate Prediction Center issued its three-month outlook for rain on June 16. Above-normal rain was anticipated over a large swath of the Great Plains covering much of the Dakotas, Iowa and Nebraska.
In the worst-case scenario, that rain would gush into the already full river system and produce widespread, near-record flooding from Kansas City to St. Louis.
A case in point: a mere 2 to 3 inches of rain last week in northern Missouri pushed the Mississippi River up 6 feet within days near Hannibal. In Minot, the Souris is expected to top a city record set in 1881 by more than 5 feet.
On Thursday, the province revised its prediction of when the once-tranquil river would peak in Manitoba. Now, the Souris is expected to reach its crest in Wawanesa between July 7 and 9, more than a week earlier than expected.
A storm expected to develop today over the Souris River in Saskatchewan, the United States and southwestern Manitoba, which could dump up to 30 millimetres of water on the saturated ground, won't help the river slow down.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/new-souris-crest-coming-even-quicker-124478689.html
http://www.thirdage.com/news/minot-north-dakota-flooding-could-break-record-levels_06-24-2011
The river, which stood 1,556 feet above sea level early Friday, is expected to break the 1881 record of 1,558 feet by mid-morning and peak at 1564.5 feet late Saturday or early Sunday.
Secretaría de defensa de los EE.UU, año 1997.
Transcripción;
DoD News Briefing: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
...and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.
Fuente;
http://www.defense.gov/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=674
Oye, ¿no os parece que os pasais un poco con las citaciones en inglés?
#17 Ya me dirás ¿cómo vas a encontrar información si no?
Por ejemplo, sobre la otra nuclear en peligro por el rio Missouri
http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/national/river-falls-short-of-nebraska-nuke-plant-shutdown
The Missouri River rose to within 18 inches of forcing the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in southeast
Nebraska, but stopped and ebbed slightly.
The river has to hit 902 feet above sea level at Brownville before officials will shut down the Cooper Nuclear Plant.
Nebraska Public Power District spokesman Mark Becker says the river rose to 900.56 feet on Sunday, then dropped to 900.4 feet later in the day and remained at that level Monday morning.
Becker says the plant is operating at full capacity.
#18 Y si estuviera en japonés, la pegamos en japonés también, ¿no?. No cuesta nada usar un traductor en línea y comentar en castellano. Para leer hilos en inglés la gente puede ir a otros sitios.