These American Dams Are Falling Apart

Why some of the USA's most important infrastructure is in danger.
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[NoResultFound]

The fact of the matter is that a lot of these systems need to be completely replaced not simply band-aided. Unfortunately stopping the movement of commerce in any way in the short-term is politically non viable to nearly all politicians.

[JohnMckeown-dlcl]

This reminds me of an old line from a TV commercial: "You can pay me now or pay me later". It was about deferring an smaller expense now will cost you more later. Doing a $500, 000 fix ten years ago would save a $2, 000, 000 fix today. It is always much more expensive later when deterioration has further progressed.

[vykend]

There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

[JeffBilkins]

Today I learned US systematically transports sewage on barges (which are blocked because of a railway project) so yes this is very important.

[dappergenesis]

GOOD, finally spending money on American infrastructure. Next the road bridges and rail systems!

[aeoleaburwell]

Plenty of repairs and maintenance going on in recent years along the Erie Canal, including locks and bridges.

[ebx]

Listening to politicians campaign to build a new highway (canal, bridge, or whatever) while at the same time promising to lower taxes and other endless bha, bla bla sounds about as old as these structures. Priorities need to shift to maintaining what we already have.

[leonflemming]

Funily enough, today part of the Carola Bridge here in Dresden, Germany collapsed during the night.

It is truly frightening that this happens even in such a rich country with so much Supervision and safety regulations as germany.

It is a miracle that nobody got hurt, and the bridge collapsed empty and not during the very busy Tram and pedestrian traffic.

The Problem of too little Infrastrukturen spending has been a big political issue for ages now, lets hope this serves as a wake up call to action

[JamesFFiT]

Nice home office Fred!❤ your channel is just the best. Still remember how stoked you were when you saw your ad for the B1M on the wall in the tube station a few years ago lol😂

[nakazatojl]

Non compressed concrete failing after less than 100 years, what a surprise, wrong material for long term

[mirzaahmed]

It's just weird that money wasn't set aside when these dams were constructed to fund their eventual replacements. Have they never heard of depreciation?

[MTTT]

Considering how long overdue many of these replacement projects are, it also speaks for the construction techniques back in the day that these pieces of infrastructure have lasted so much longer than anticipated. Some people back then would have probably laughed you in the face if you would have told them they were stil in use in the 21st century, having thought they would have been replaced several times at that point. So, kudos to those engineers back then.

[robertk]

Today an important bridge in my hometown (Dresden, Germany) fell apart. You cant believe, how fast this can go and how big the damage can be.

[gasman]

That is what happens when you let private companies run your infrastructure and give all their profits to shareholders instead of investing in the waterways

[chrisnewman]

As happens in other parts of the world it’s never urgent while the structure holds together but as soon as is it’s damaged or washed away suddenly it’s all stops out and there’s nothing more urgent

[tylenolistasty]

There was a dam failure in Minnesota this year

[percentirish]

Thank you very much for bringing this to us American's attention, sir. Cheers, from Jacksonville, Florida.

[CaseNumber]

I been hearing infrastructure is poor in the US for over a decade, last year I wanted to do something about that and decided I want to switch careers and applied to a union apprenticeship. What I have come to find out, people waiting for the call to be allowed onto a union apprenticeship is 100-200+ long and apprenticeship programs only let in about 25-50 people a year. Hell, I wated with 163 people in line when application opened up. People want to be construction workers and work in the trade but for what ever reason, the people deciding who can work wont bring in and train the long line of people waiting.

[Quantum_BOI]

Couldn't love dam engineering videos more! DAM

[theigadwolf]

It's not just the infrastructure that's failing.