The nation’s dams are over a half-century old on average. The Pacheco Dam is even older: It was built in 1939.
“There are thousands of people in this country that are living downstream from dams that are probably considered deficient given current safety standards,” Mark Ogden told AP. Ogden is a former Ohio dam safety official who is now a technical specialist with the Association of State Dam Safety Officials, which estimates it would take more than $70 billion to repair and modernize the nation’s more than 90,000 dams.

“Everyone in this room knows that’s not true,” Fast said.

19-15-19

San Joaquin Valley Water

LOIS HENRY: Groundwater overdraft numbers ‘don’t add up,’ and that’s a big problem

BY LOIS HENRY SJV Water

An old friend of mine, a Hong Kong resident, sent me this note from his wife yesterday. There have been news reports all evening of escalating levels of violence at the university she mentions. There are obviously great differences between the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong but violent repression won't settle them any more than violent repression approaching genocide has "settled" Tibetan Buddhism, Uighur Islam or Falun Gong Taoism. But it seems to be communist atheism or nothing in the PRC. -- wmh

Bill—

10-17-19

Acting Franciscan

Border Wall Construction: Imperiling Sacred Sites, Churches and Religious Freedom

By Bother Coyote, OEF

https://franciscanaction.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/border-wall-constructi...