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Nitram

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1. Climate change is a very small part of it. The main issue is a lack of maintenance, monitoring,
Fri May 22, 2020, 05:47 PM
May 2020

and oversight for tens of thousands of dams across the country. Dam regulations were updated a few years ago to require maintenance standards , planning for heavy rainfalls that could breach a dam, and establishing who is responsible for monitoring and repairing dams. Federal and state funding has been woefully inadequate.

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