sinkhole in the parking lot (!!!!!)
Lots of info – BooneDoggle
LINK – http://youtu.be/qvOIz3Eo6DI
The TVA must be copying Texas Brine. They have a “timetable” too! News report with video (Ap. 28)
Boone dam has been crumbling for a long time – 2004 photos
The Boone Dam Sinkhole after the Panama Canal Quake of 29 October 2014
TVA energy plant map page | zoomable area map
CLICK THIS MAP FOR BIG SIZE – 
Boone Lake water elevation live data
This guy says the threat is overblown and there’s lots of space in lakes to absorb any escaping water –
LINK – http://youtu.be/EjDzCBR5kLo
[use term “Boone dam” in the search box on the right sidebar to see old items about the slo-mo disaster ]
The Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle 
some useful evacuation facts –
http://enenews.com/top-official-sinkhole-sunk-further-water-coming-dam-upstream-multiple-nuclear-plants-agencys-top-priority-section-caved-base-govt-refuses-disclose-inundation-maps-reporter-security-concerns/comment-page-1#comment-667694
Reblogged this on flying cuttlefish picayune and commented:
Keep an eye on this!
A second dam needs to be built either near the failing Boone dam or a little farther down stream to act as a backup. They just need to build away from the porous bedrock this time. That is a no-brainer. There’s too much to lose if the Boone dam crumbles. Hasn’t anyone learned anything from the continual death and destruction of the Fukushima catastrophe. Look at the ongoing death of the Pacific Ocean. Pacific Ocean animals are dying by the millions. Brazil has offered to resettle the Japaneese people. Has anyone thought about relocating the American citizens should the Boone dam crumble and blow the numerous nuclear reactors down stream? Redundant systems ensure stability of the entire system.
How many miles is it from Boone dam to the first nuclear plant as the crow flies in Tennessee.
Tennessee coal ash spill Dec. 22, 2008
Did the 2008 Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill go into the Watts Bar Lake?
Is Watts Bar nuclear power plant there.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/photos/americas-10-worst-man-made-environmental-disasters-0
Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Bar_Nuclear_Generating_Station
earlier post had a map … I think 3 huge NNPs at risk.
just added a video.
At risk:
Watts Bar NNP
Sequoyah NNP
Browns Ferry NPP
Following is a brief overview of the nuclear disasters I mentioned above for those of you unfamiliar with these nuclear accidents.
Professors: 100s of Millions of animals have died recently along West Coast — Worst mortality event ever known — “Wiped out at least 20 different species” — Marine life also disappearing from Fukushima coast (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/professors-largest-mass-mortality-associated-disease-recorded-place-along-west-coast-hundreds-millions-died-epidemic-wiped-20-different-species-sea-life-along-fukushima-coast-missing-video
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Report: Over 30 million permanently affected by Fukushima radiation; Number of people exposed triples Chernobyl — Japan Professor: 14,000 sq. kilometers heavily contaminated; Millions including kids and infants are exposed everyday after being abandoned by gov’t, it is very bizarre (AUDIO)
http://enenews.com/report-30-million-permanently-affected-fukushimas-radioactive-contamination-number-people-exposed-radiation-triple-chernobyl-japan-professor-14000-square-kilometers-heavily-contaminated-fallout-mil
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Gov’t Analysis: Up to 592 Trillion Bq of Plutonium equivalent involved in disaster at US nuclear dump – Over 5,000 times amount in waste drum blamed for WIPP release — Official: “We thought for sure” there were multiple ruptured drums — “It actually was measured” in city many miles away (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/govt-analysis-592-trillion-becquerels-involved-release-nuclear-dump-5000-times-waste-drum-being-blamed-wipp-disaster-official-thought-sure-multiple-ruptures-actually-measured-city-many-miles-aw
and ENE has a button link on the sidebar.
Lots more on the FC blog — using top tabs.
…and how far away is this town???
http://www.wjhl.com/story/28962188/update-pipe-failure-fixed-at-johnson-city-water-treatment-plant
… and lots of good info in the comments to the ENE-News article.
Can’t they do a freeze wall and do a fix up ….???
The porous bedrock is too unstable. If repairs are done in place–kicking the can down the road–problems will uundoubtedly occure in the future.
all of the 1950s and 1960s tin cans kicked this far are rusting out and blowing up!
This is just the East Tennessee Dams.
All that water is moving to Chattanooga TN.
As you can see Boone Dam is almost in Virginia.
Below Boone dam is Fort Patrick Henry dam then below that is Cherokee Dam below that is Fort Loudoun dam below that is Watts Bar dam and below that is Chickamauga dam and below that is Nickajack dam
Just where is Oak Ridge TN at its between Norris dam and Melton Hill dam.
This is a truer picture of the Tennessee river system.
As you can see the Tennessee river began in Virginia and North Carolina and it goes all the way to Ohio river in Kentucky.
TVA ‘oops’ on flood model
TVA uses sand baskets as temporary fixes for flawed flooding calculations
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/news/story/2011/aug/05/raising-dams/55682/
TVA making improvements to East TN dams
http://www.wbir.com/story/news/local/2014/06/18/tva-making-improvements-to-east-tn-dams/10803107/
CENTER HILL DAM REHAB TRANSITIONS TO NEXT PHASE
http://www.wjle.com/news/2011/center-hill-dam-rehab-transitions-next-phase
[I wish we had this drone camera!]
video from NOV. —
Why was all those dams build in Tennessee
Mississippi River Valley: “The River” 1937 US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
A Guide to Pond Leak Repair
http://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/pond-repair-zmaz83ndzale.aspx
Heavy Plastic Liners
http://www.luresext.edu/aquaculture/stoppingleaksinponds.htm
It was probably a good idea at the time. People still used kerosene lamps then.
But these dams are all really old now.
2010 Tennessee floods
The May 2010 Tennessee floods were 1000-year floods in Middle Tennessee like Nashville and West Tennessee like Memphis south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi areas of the United States of America as the result of torrential rains on May 1 and 2, 2010
Heavy rain also affected large portions of Arkansas, northern Mississippi and southern Kentucky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Tennessee_floods
West Tennessee
West Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of the state of Tennessee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Tennessee
The Cumberland river in Tennessee flows into the Ohio river near Paducah Kentucky as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_River
I wonder if that had to do with amount of snow that year in parts north…
2010 Tenn. flood photos –
http://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/videos/75573
Nickajack Dam was built in 1964 and finish in 1968 to replace Hales Bar Dam it was 6 miles upstream they began construction in 1905 it was completed in 1913 Hales Bar was built on leaky limestone foundations and had to be demolished.
http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=585
Here’s your lava tubes draining Oregon lake!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11587923/The-water-mystery-Lost-Lake-drains-like-a-bathtub-in-Oregon.html
NOTE: I added a vid to the post that says things aren’t so bad ….
errata –
TVA – Browns Ferry, Sequoya and Watts Bar NPPs flood plans
Click to access ML14191A044.pdf
and http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1419/ML14191A046.pdf
UPDATE:
Gov’t: Erosion is “undermining foundation” of major dam upstream of US nuclear plants — “Extensive network” of seepage paths found — “Water flowing through from multiple sources & multiple directions” — Nuclear plants doing Problem Evaluation Reports on ‘complex and urgent’ situation
http://enenews.com/govt-erosion-undermining-foundation-major-dam-upstream-nuclear-plants-extensive-network-seepage-paths-discovered-water-flowing-multiple-sources-multiple-directions-nuclear-plants-doing-proble
repairs continue
http://wate.com/2015/10/07/boone-dam-repairs-moving-forward/
FEB. 26 UPDATE –
https://lasinkhole.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/thurs-15/
Boone Dam Remediation Project that has lasted 7 years draws to a close
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/boone-dam-remediation-project-that-has-lasted-7-years-draws-to-a-close/ar-AAXr3KS