Good luck and be safe. This will be the case in many states as a multitude of decades old, unmaintained private dams fail. Community associations refuse to repair or breach all of the ones on the private lakes around here. The Georgia Safe Dams Commission is toothless and does not enforce the statute.
Never buy lowlands for permanent habitation...
Already happening in many cases, including here in Iowa a few years ago.
But it's not just private infrastructure, nor just dams. Many other items can, will, and are falling apart. For instance, Minneapolis lost a bridge not too many years ago.
A bridge that would still be in place, except, somebody screwed up and used .500” plate
Instead of the 1” plate the designer specified to assemble the steel work.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridgeWhen a NTSB guy writes his doctoral thesis on why the bridge is going to fall, before it falls, you might want to listen to him.
Might not be the best example of “falling apart” infrastructure, Brent. “Way Big Infrastructure Screwup”, maybe.
Best,
Ted
