UPDATE: So I got to see the handywork tonight. As you can see, the water is flowing over the lowhead, like intended, but it seems to be flowing thru it also. This dam isn’t even a year old and it already has water squirting thru it. It is pretty obvious they didn’t drill down several feet to pour the dam, they just poured it on top of the rocks (in some spots). What?! Did the city hire Lowe’s handyman to do the job? “Yeah, I can save you a few bucks on crete and blasting, so this is what I am thinking . . . “
So I saw this yesterday down by the new drainage wall at the Steel District. It looks ‘temporary’ but I am wondering what the heck this is for? Any engineering weirdos able to explain this?
Scott, I would say this is temporary coffer dam. I would think this was done to let the water through as they build the new dam, but it sure looks like they are destroying our great river. Something this city has come to be known for, destroying our history.
Temporary access across flood plain so that area to right can be filled. Surplus tin horn drain pipes instead of bridge for when there’s spring rains. Pipes can be removed and reutilized another somewhere.
Otherwise, a crypt for murder victims and homeless who got locked outside from the Berlin Wall.
New homeless shelters. Some with running water. Else, remains of Ancient Alien spacecraft, which were most likely buried here during the height of the Blood Run period. Because Bob Lazar does claim that some of the alien crafts, which are government has, were actually found during archaeological digs. 🙂
Else, this could be remnants of an old Soviet KM Ekranoplan, “The Caspian Sea Monster”…..:
https://migflug.com/jetflights/the-craziest-soviet-machines/
To the info and photo contained in the update.
LOL. That concrete work will peel off with the first rush of heavy water (spring snow melt or large rain event).
To this point of winter and given lean snowfall amounts and snow cover, it looks like the dam gets a reprieve until the first large rain event of the year.
(Just like other instances of poor engineering and workmanship in City projects), The taxpayers will pay to redo this in a couple of years.
spring ice floes getting jammed in there would be interesting but i guess we won’t find out this year
There’s definitely “spring ice,” just ask Noem. 🙂
that looks like the crumbling stretch of sycamore and also 6th street that is down to one lane for 9 months at a time every year due to “repairs”.