Engineers up failure risk for dam protecting Disneyland, dozens of Southern California cities
by Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
May 17, 2019
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Federal engineers are raising alarms that a "significant flood event" could compromise the spillway of Southern California's aging Prado Dam and potentially inundate dozens of Orange County communities from Disneyland to Newport Beach.
After conducting an assessment of the 78-year-old structure earlier this month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it was raising the dam's risk category from "moderate" to "high urgency."
"Our concern right now is about the concrete slab of the spillway and how well it
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