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友達と始まった夜散歩。とある集落の山際で異質な巨大建造物が現れゾクッとしました。

手持ちの照明は暗めでまずは片側のコンクリート壁だけが見え、謎の巨大ビルのようで。その後に中央のパイプ群、もう片方のコンクリート壁が見えました。

まあダムだと思いましたが、昼間にもう一度友達と行ってみました。
すると、昼に見ても十分異様で圧倒されました。鉄パイプはローラーコースターの支柱みたいな規模です。

My friend and I started a habit of taking nighttime walks. Near the edge of a certain village, a strange, gigantic structure appeared, sending shivers down my spine.

#ダム #dam #巨大建造物 #hugebuilding #奄美 #amami #奄美大島 #amamiisland #damphotography #photography

Ventura County dam disaster day, which almost no one knows about.

The deadly St. Francis dam disaster

https://www.library.ucla.edu/about/news/st-francis-dam-disaster

#disasters #dam #VenturaCounty

Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find the remains of victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were washed out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between L.A. County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”

For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #flood #dam #mulholland #monolake #owensvalley #disaster #nativeamerican #indigenous #piute #ecology #chinatown #indianwar #habitatdestruction #books #nonfiction #author #writer #losangeles @bookstadon

Sunken Bridge.

The Aseler Bridge (built between 1887 and 1890) has actually been submerged and hidden in Lake Eder since 1924.
During dry periods, which have become more frequent in recent years, Lake Eder experiences low water levels and many sunken relics, including the Aseler Bridge, reappear.

#Edersee #Asel #Edertalsperre #Eder #LostPlace #Dam #Drought #Bridge #monochrome #Blackandwhite #Photography #Talsperre #Trockenheit #Austrocknung #Bruecke #Schwarzweiss #Fotografie #monochromeMarch

The Aseler Bridge (built between 1887 and 1890) has actually been submerged and hidden in Lake Eder since 1924.
During dry periods, which have become more frequent in recent years, Lake Eder experiences low water levels and many sunken relics, including the Aseler Bridge, reappear.

#Edersee #Asel #Edertalsperre #Eder #LostPlace #Dam #Drought #Bridge #monochrome #Blackandwhite #Photography #Talsperre #Trockenheit #Austrocknung #Bruecke #monochrom #Schwarzweiss #Fotografie #monochromeMarch

#mwgic #Dam #LakePowell #Drought #Hydroelectric

Experts anticipate major US #reservoir could reach #critical level by end of #2026: 'Efforts have been productive' https://share.google/uDQ0VWG5LtwNEmHty