![]() ![]() However, Tom Holloway, operator of record at the Meander Water Treatment Plant and former MVSD chief engineer, said last week the Gannett Fleming study indicated that seismic activity had not caused any significant damage to the MVSD facilities, including the dam. There are age cracks and things of that nature and the same thing with buildings. We looked close at the dam and the buildings … but there was no significant damage from the one seismic activity we had here,” Holloway said. Holloway was referring to the magnitude-4.0 Dec. ![]() But he clarified that he was also referring to the two lesser earthquakes that occurred near an American 31, 2011, earthquake caused by a D&L Energy injection well on Ohio Works Drive in Youngstown. ![]() Water Management Services injection well on state Route 169 in Weathersfield. “Most of cracks here on the buildings is over time, age and some settlement of the buildings. There was no significant findings that there is a serious crack or issue with the dam,” Holloway said.īlair and the rest of the MVSD board were in the planning stages for the dam renovation in 2017. “Our dam wasn’t built for earthquakes,” Blair said in 2017. “When we build out there, if the ground is becoming more unstable, we have to build in a different way like California so we don’t have cracking. It’s kind of a new problem for us.”Īpart from earthquake issues are ones associated with flooding.Ī key concept is the “probable maximum flood,” McNinch said, explaining that the probable maximum flood for this area is 19 inches of rain in a 24-hour period, which would be rare. ![]()
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