The era of its construction was not good for earthen dams...
You got that dead straight!....and by the mid to late 80s we were madly scrambling to keep up with the incipient failures of the damned things, which had been scattered around like a mad woman's schiddt on both sides of the Medicine Line. You would not BELIEVE the miserable pile of mud they had protecting the town of Canmore Alta.
Ya' cant teach these "Civil Engineers" jack, ...by the late 80s they actually thought that they were going to modify the path of the "Mighty Bow",...and proceeded to try......that lasted, what, less than 25 years, and the whole bloody mess washed away ?
GTC
Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
