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Seeing some fabric down within the dam, it makes me wonder if this has not happened before. The reason I say that is if a person had a breech they might have patched the breech, layered fabric over both the patched area and the adjacent portion of the dam, then covered the fabric with dirt. The thinking being the fabric could tie in the new patch with the old dam and the extra dirt over it would add strength.
May not be the case at all, but that is what I thought of when I saw the fabric down within the dam. Looks like something I might have thought of trying to fix a breech.
Last edited by snrub; 05/29/15 10:35 AM.
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Walt You are starting in the right place---and in the right order BY MAKING A GOOD PLAN.
snrub The fabric is still bothering me a little bit also. We know it did not get there by accident.
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I agree on the fabric, and wonder if it were a patch or if someone thought it would protect the core from roots invading.....
EDIT: After looking longer at the picture, I worry a builder may have just pushed trash as fill into the core rather than keeping clean soils/clay in it.
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I am going to do a lot of reading on here about spillways and emergency spillways.
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If that is trash in the dam like Rex said that could explain why it washed out in the first place. Also that will make it very important to do an extra good job when the work starts---if it is trash you need to get all of it out.
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