Since you brought up the Eastman tunnel collapse, it might be good for thoseI'd like to note that the Eastman tunnel collapse on October 4, 1869 required 15 years work (1870 to 1885) and over $615,000 from the federal government to "repair." The Eastman tunnel was clearly a bad idea.
that aren't aware of some of the history of the falls to take a look at this
link, http://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/history/engineering/ . One thing is clear
from reading through the history, and that is that engineers and developers
have made mistakes and forgotten about things that later proved to drastically
alter their plans and the falls. So, is $10,000,000.00 enough to cover the
things that the engineers of the current project have overlooked or don't yet
know about ? I'm not in the water falls reconstruction business, but it seems
more than a little shy to me.
Dan McGuire
Ericsson
I'd also like to point out another unpleasant surprise in the same area. S. H. Chute excavated a tunnel on the east bank to provide water power but had his project end rather abruptly upon running smack into a large cave. The tunnel and cave are below Main St. SE (mostly) and at one point in 1881, the cave collapsed taking part of Main Street above with it.
Today, of course, our technology is much better. We can drill core samples, and do other sorts of geologic studies to figure out what's down there before digging. And we don't make errors of judgement as they did then.
Or do we? Most readers probably remember the gas explosion in St. Cloud a few years back. Utility workers were actually drilling in the right place, but hit a rock which diverted the drill and well, boom. Or the building in Chaska that collapsed a few years ago and crushed and killed a boy? Or the coal miners in Pennsylvania who accidentally drilled into an abandoned mine filled with water because their maps were not quite as accurate as they needed to be?
Unlikely, but probably not a risk we want to take.
Chris Johnson / Fulton
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