State officials are warning that a 99-year-old dam in Northern California is at risk of collapsing if a big rainstorm comes through. The concrete Eastwood Multiple Arch Dam in Jackson was built in 1916 and holds back large quantities of arsenic-contaminated tailings left over from gold mining. In June, the U.S. Army Corps of […]
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Crumbling infrastructure: 99-year-old dam may collapse from winter rains and spill arsenic-contaminated tailings
November 6th, 2015 Awake Goy