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Originally Posted by John Mercier
When we breach a dam, flooding does not occur.
Belmont breached the dam. It simply allowed the water to flow out in a controlled method until low enough to remove the dam.
If Lakeport was to have a situation that it became high risk, they would just keep the flood gates open as much as they could without swamping downstream... even when no new rain was predicted to lower the lake enough to do the maintenance or to breach and remove the dam.
Or course, if you lower Winnipesaukee by the depth of that dam, interesting navigational challenges and changes in shorefront happen.
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Fully understand I was using flood to explain my stance with idenified flood zones off of dammed water ways and benefits of such dams across the state