Washington avertit du risque d’un effondrement « catastrophique » du barrage de Mossoul en Irak

Deen Sharp on the “story” of the soon collapsing Mosul dam
▻https://www.facebook.com/deensharp?hc_ref=NEWSFEED

Has any other dam received as much attention over such a long time span about its immenant collapse as the Mosul dam?

And it took me - in 2014! - a few google searches to find that this document likely does not exist but yet it STILL gets cited by journalists!: A report by the US Corps, in 2006, warned that the conditions of the dam were extremely precarious. “In terms of internal erosion potential of the foundation, Mosul Dam is the most dangerous dam in the world,” said the Corps.

I blogged about this here when I was bored one evening, come on people!:

So, I looked for the 2006 report by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) that called, according to Malas and numerous other journalists, the Mosul Dam “the most dangerous dam in the world”. And I searched and I searched. It was conceivable that the report was not in the public domain despite the fact that the US government and USACE have put a cache of documents on the Mosul Dam online. But then I found US Embassy comments on the document Relief and Reconstruction Funded Work at Mosul Dam, Mosul, Iraq that notes: “ITAO [The Iraq Transition Assistance Office] is not aware of the September report that declares Mosul to be the most dangerous dam in the world” and also warned that such a claim is “inflammatory and almost certainly disprovable”. Indeed, I had no idea how dangerous and frequent Dam failures are – the Mosul dam has significant competition. (▻https://deensharp.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/dam-debt)

#barrage #dam #ISIS

Le #barrage irakien de #Mossoul qui menace de s’effondrer (1) sous « prefusion » italienne et états-unienne avec les sociétés Trevi et AECOM (2 et 3). Les États-Unis, dont le corps des ingénieurs de l’armée avait publié un rapport (4) sur le sujet en 2007, investie 1,2 million de dollars dans des barrages anti-crue d’après P. Chapleau (5) :

1,2 million$… Pas cher pour protéger les populations irakiennes menacées : 1,7 million de personnes pourraient être affectées par la crue dont 0,5 pourraient périr sous le coup des 12 milliards de m3 d’eau retenus qui déferlerait vers Bagdad en cas d’éclatement du barrage…

Sauf que les fameux barrages, des MosCamp rapidement déployables, serviront à garder au sec le BDSC, le Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center et, surtout, le site de l’ambassade US. Des sites qui sont déjà à l’abri des crues puisqu’entourés de T-Walls. Reste les points d’entrée à garder au sec. Ce qui sera fait. Le reste…

1. ►http://seenthis.net/messages/468610
2. ▻http://lignesdedefense.blogs.ouest-france.fr/archive/2016/04/19/aecom-va-ausculter-le-barrage-de-mossoul-16050.ht
3. ▻http://lignesdedefense.blogs.ouest-france.fr/archive/2016/06/11/barrage-de-mossoul-un-marche-de-52-millions-de-do
4. ▻http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/elpubs/pdf/tr07-10.pdf
5. ▻http://lignesdedefense.blogs.ouest-france.fr/archive/2016/03/31/le-barrage-de-mossoul-15930.html

#risque #Irak #États-Unis_d'Amérique #Italie #Fleuve_Tigre

Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1m people | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/mosul-dam-engineers-warn-it-could-fail-at-any-time-killing-1m-people

Iraqi engineers involved in building the Mosul dam 30 years ago have warned that the risk of its imminent collapse and the consequent death toll could be even worse than reported.

They pointed out that pressure on the dam’s compromised structure was building up rapidly as winter snows melted and more water flowed into the reservoir, bringing it up to its maximum capacity (...)

The engineers warned that potential loss of life from a sudden catastrophic collapse of the Mosul dam could be even greater than the 500,000 officially estimated, as they said many people could die in the resulting mass panic, with a 20-metre-high flood wave hitting the city of Mosul and then rolling on down the Tigris valley through Tikrit and Samarra to Baghdad.

One of the Iraqi engineers, now living in Europe, described as “ridiculous” the Iraqi government’s emergency policy of telling local people to move 6km (3.5 miles) from the river banks.

#guerre #infrastructures #barrage #catastrophe_annoncée #Irak #it_has_begun