Beyond the decrepit hydro plant, the entire dam's spillway is too small to pass a probable maximum flood and upgrades could cost millions.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
The spillway structure consists of a newer 25-foot wide concrete spillway with two 11-foot wide underflow radial gates, added in 1974, and the original 26-foot wide with three 6-foot wide underflow sliding gates.
The closest the data center would be to Weston Gardens is 370 feet, said Riley, due to a wooded floodway and floodplain between the Black Mountain property and Weston’s.
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Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Sep. 2025
Call it resilience, call it infrastructure, call it economic development—just build it before the next 8-year-old goes to sleep in a floodway.
Very little has been done to deal with this problem, but today, lawmakers in Albany have an opportunity to help protect our neighbors upstate and across the river, save our tax dollars, and protect our environment at the same time by passing the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act.
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Justin Sanchez,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
In the remote village of Bella Coola, where a milky-green river winds beneath towering mountains, the ooligan run has not returned in 26 years.
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