Georgia has more than 4,000 dams, ranging from mere mud fences to mortar mountains.
Many span streams that run for miles and, somewhere down the line, tie into water supplies. And most of these dams receive almost no regulatory oversight. The few hundred that do are on a waiting list two years long.
Within the past month, heavy rains have breached two dams in metro Atlanta, causing untold property damage and dislocating some residents.
via Agency awash in untended dam inventory | www.myajc.com.
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