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Quirky Things Seen From The Air in Your RV
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My guess would be an ordinance depot. The surrounding security fence tells me they are pretty protective of whatever is in there. Hmmmmmmmmm....
I suppose that could be called mixed-mode transportation.
Where?
Av8torTom
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This was over Robbinsville, NJ. Completed about a year ago.
I've been meaning to add this unusual landmark to the collection here and finally managed to get a couple of decent photos of it:
This is actually a (very expensive) landslide control measure, built to prevent the side of the hill from falling into the man-made lake below it.
The Clyde Dam was constructed across the Clutha River at the southern end of the Cromwell Gorge between 1977 and 1992. Over that time, several large scale landslides which would be affected by the filling of the dam were stabilised. The "Cairnmuir Slide", as this feature is called, was different - its failure surface was above the maximum lake level. Monitoring indicated there was a risk of failure of the landslide into the lake, which would create waves large enough to go over the dam, with catastrophic effects for the townships of Clyde and Alexandra.
The main problem was found to be rainwater seeping into the base of the landslide. The lower area had a general slope of about 45 degrees and this enabled it to be waterproofed with a geo membrane, weighed down with a continuous series of wire baskets filled with stone. The upper area was then waterproofed by constructing vertical reinforced earth and retaining walls following the contour, then sealing the resulting flat surfaces by spraying on a bitumen/stone surface.
There were plans to place another dam further down the river near Beaumont but cost and lobby groups prevented this, however you can still see the remanents of the huge graffiti slogan - "HANDS OFF BEAUMONT" - that was painted on the lower face of the Slide.
This is actually a (very expensive) landslide control measure, built to prevent the side of the hill from falling into the man-made lake below it.
The Clyde Dam was constructed across the Clutha River at the southern end of the Cromwell Gorge between 1977 and 1992. Over that time, several large scale landslides which would be affected by the filling of the dam were stabilised. The "Cairnmuir Slide", as this feature is called, was different - its failure surface was above the maximum lake level. Monitoring indicated there was a risk of failure of the landslide into the lake, which would create waves large enough to go over the dam, with catastrophic effects for the townships of Clyde and Alexandra.
The main problem was found to be rainwater seeping into the base of the landslide. The lower area had a general slope of about 45 degrees and this enabled it to be waterproofed with a geo membrane, weighed down with a continuous series of wire baskets filled with stone. The upper area was then waterproofed by constructing vertical reinforced earth and retaining walls following the contour, then sealing the resulting flat surfaces by spraying on a bitumen/stone surface.
There were plans to place another dam further down the river near Beaumont but cost and lobby groups prevented this, however you can still see the remanents of the huge graffiti slogan - "HANDS OFF BEAUMONT" - that was painted on the lower face of the Slide.
RicoB
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Meteor Crater in Winslow, Arizona
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RicoB
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Solar farm via mirrors. Very interesting
West of Las Vegas.
en.wikipedia.org
West of Las Vegas.
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility - Wikipedia
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Very cool.... but why??
Pretty cool? Looks pretty gawdy to me and a real eyesore for the surrounding land owners. There’s one of those temples in our local area and it looks so out of place in a serene hilly wooded area. So tacky looking…… but then again, just one person’s opinion
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China. Easier to dig thru sand than rock.
I am guessing it is a hydro power plant
It is part of the CA aqueduct system. As you move south there are a series of pumping stations that move the water uphill. In this case water is moving right to left.
walkman
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no tackier than any other church building of any other religion anywhere any time any place
It’s a little further west, by Taft.
My bad. I was thinking like a Midwesterner where our water DOES WORK for us and not California where you need TO DO WORK on your water.
We just watched a YouTube video about that vein. Crazy now you have a picture of it! Good hearing from you Vlad.
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Hands down, you live in a weird part of the world Vlad. From unusual landscapes, to sand worms, and now sunken aircraft... you've got it all.
Hard to compete with that!
But we don't have the Clyde Dam!
Not as cool without all the fbi and atf assault gear setting up to raid
