Tuesday night at around 10pm I heard some explosion causing my windows to tremble badly. Shortly after this helicopters were approaching. What was happening?
The Tempe Town Lake dam just burst. Its remains can be found here (33.433341,-111.948732), R.I.P.
The dam made of inflated rubber by Bridgestone has to withstand about 1 billion gallons of water in the lake. Since there are no free re-fills Tempe will have to pay $350,000 - $400,000 to turn it into a lake again. Construction of the $45 million lake started 1997 and on June 2, 1999 water from the Central Arizona Project started flowing into Town Lake; by July 14, the lake was officially full.
The second 'boom' for the transformer that blew while I was writing this, LOL. But APS had it fixed in about an hour, so it's all good!
The Tempe Town Lake dam just burst. Its remains can be found here (33.433341,-111.948732), R.I.P.
The dam made of inflated rubber by Bridgestone has to withstand about 1 billion gallons of water in the lake. Since there are no free re-fills Tempe will have to pay $350,000 - $400,000 to turn it into a lake again. Construction of the $45 million lake started 1997 and on June 2, 1999 water from the Central Arizona Project started flowing into Town Lake; by July 14, the lake was officially full.
The second 'boom' for the transformer that blew while I was writing this, LOL. But APS had it fixed in about an hour, so it's all good!
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