12/27/12

To KBC News editor from Stephen Koshy, former director of Central Water Commission in India, and scholar with The United Nations Development Program AUSTRALIA)

"I have not heard from the Board of Supervisors or the County Counsel. I gave clear concise and precise engineering analysis that at current technology, the dams can not be breached as long as the 'impervious clay core' of the earth dams are saturated in water. There is no way to safely breach these earth dams, ever. The other issues are re the stability of slopes and the sediment.

The DOI engineers on the project to breach the earth dams were not earth dam experts, but a hydraulic engineer and a concrete engineering expert according to my memory. This is a serious error. On the consultants, part also I couldn't see any earth dam experts in the project report's names given.

My letters are (site was taken down) in my web page www.stephenkoshy.com ... It is evident to the DOI / Bureau of Reclamation engineers, which explains why they have not taken a decision, but (so-called) postponed the decision. If they are to admit their error, some one in a higher technical position, such as the National Academy of Science and technology, examine my analysis and force their admission of their error...

With Regards,

Stephen"
 

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