The ‘developing’ impulse produced dams that became useless and seismically hazardous

Evidence

But by the 1940s, it had filled up with so much sediment that another larger dam was built upstream. In the 1990s, the San Clemente Dam was declared not only useless but seismically unsafe due to its proximity to a fault line. An earthquake might have sent not only water but 2.5 million cubic yards of accumulated sediment into the towns downstream. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 637

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Dam removal as concrete repair pairs with the trees-as-infrastructure essay’s counter-logic to ‘development’; the chapter’s reparative-dismantling theme extends the grafting-and-growth frame.
• XREF: connects to: Construction of dams was actually destruction of ecosystems
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Construction of dams was actually destruction of ecosystems