Black Mountain

The greening of the mountains from Blue Ridge Rd, Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Friday, June 7, 2013

The dam

Lots of folks in Black Mountain believe in living in a more "natural way" than they used to, back in the cities, or whenever they visit the structures which show great engineering feats.

Here's a slightly more natural kind of dam...earthen that is, rather than concrete.  It does have engineering proclaimed through a sluice gear which can be opened whenever there's flooding upstream in the mountains.  It allows the lake to be drained quite a bit if needed.



There's the control valve.

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