At the height of the flood, engineers feared a bridge on the Pawtuxet was going to collapse, taking with it a nearby dam, which in turn could have taken out another dam.
ECONOMIST: Things were bad enough in Rhode Island. Then the rains came
It is also building a dam and handing out scholarships to young Afghan students.
The dam usually puts out 400, 000 gallons per second, a spokesman said.
"Once the rain is here, the remaining sludge will be washed out and the the dam's northern sections is going to break away, " Mr Illes said.
He points out that every bridge for 30 miles below the breached Mohne dam was destroyed, and buildings were damaged 40 miles away.
They have also been building a dam of hundreds of sand bags around the bomb site to pump water out in preparation for the delicate task of defusing the device.
" Women like naturalist Ella Higginson fired back, charging that men were so obsessed with profit that they wanted to "tear down our forests, rip open our mountain sides, blow out our stumps with giant powder, (and) dam up our water ways.
However, Azar Jammine, chief economist at the Econometrix consultancy in Johannesburg, points out that South Africa also imports electricity from the huge Cahora Bassa dam in Mozambique.
"The dam is being built in the middle of the river so you can't carry out construction work while the river flowed, " Mihret Debebe, chief executive officer of the state-run Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, told the Reuters news agency.
The Marines at Combat Outpost Pennsylvania, in the contentious Helmand Province, are charged with rooting out insurgents along the highway that shadows the Helmand River up to the vital Kajaki Dam.
The dam's opponents, meanwhile, are taking technical and economic pot-shots, pointing out that estimates of the revenue the project will generate for the government have fallen over the years, and questioning whether even now they are realistic.
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