Danger at Table Rock Dam

[Knee Deep]

I believe a lot of people missed the point. Yes, the dam is easy to walk to. The family was on the south side and we believe they parked in that little lot further down because they were walking along the shore.

Our thoughts were on what would happen if the horn sounded and the water started running. Their boy was way ahead of them and no one knows if they were just visiting the area. If they knew that the water could rise rapidly depending on how many blasts (from the horn)there were. At one point their boy wouldn't have made it out.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Calico Wayne, I thought maybe that was the name of your cute little cat that you are trying to shoot with a .45?

The suspense is killin' me now

Knee deep I too was disturbed to hear of a youngster running toward fast cold water.

I just couldn't resist when it turned into a "24" plot.

[taxidermist]

There are three additional dams on White River below Bull SHoals, these are lock 3,2,1, 1 being at Batesville,

I am sure somewhere on down river is another dam with a lock. I have never been south of Oil Trough, so I dont know.

Lock 1 at Batesville is being convertted to hydro power, 2 is only about 25' deep and since water goes over the top of these three dams dont know that much damage from them would happen. I have done swift water search and recover above #2 and below #2 was my pontoon that Indepence County used. #2 is located near Locust Grove AR.

I have never been to #3.

GFD is not on the White River it is on the Red. Sommeone mentioned Greer would go too, but its safe should anything on White FAIL.

Locate Cotton Plant on your Arkansas map. back in I think it was 1932 or so. White River Cache Rivers flooded and was over four miles wide, 20 feet deep as has been reported.

From 1999 to 2005.

I lived on the White River just where the Ozarks stopped, Maybe two miles below the Lock #1. We have seen water all the way up to the road known as Gap RD. HWY 394 There is the low bank which is about 8-12 feet above river average flow, then the high bank another 8 feet above that. Its a lot of water to flood the high bank. We lost all the wheat for two years, it took a year of dozer work to cleanup the logs and crap.

Ex-wifes family owns about 3000 acres there and down at Oil Trough. The low bank at Oil Trough is nearly 20 feet high and it gets over that from time to time. During the big flood during those years I lived there we also lost the wheat crop, corn crop and hay crops at the Oil Trough farm. Also lost the silos in 1999, was fishing White River at Oil Trough when the tornado blew thru.

Anyway as you get past Batesville the river bottom really spreads out, its flat so flat to deer hunt we use bean field guns, 25-06 and other super flat shooting centerfires.

The lakes store a lot of water no doubt, but damage would be mno greater than medium flood damage thru the bottom and would pretty well be diverted thru the White River refuge and slowed to the confluience of the Arkansas. then to the Mississippi.

White is pretty well levied to hold normal flood waters near towns such as Jacksonport and Newport, Batesville would flood the downtown and industrial area.

Those towns would certainly flood as would others but many homes in that area are sharecropper shacks matter of fact all the way to the Mississippi. These are old houses that have been around 100 years, setting up on rocks on the flood plain. $$$ value is minor for these.

As for the kid and its parents playing with danger, well thats how people win the Darwin Awards. You cannot protect everybody all the time or others begin loosing freedom. Those might be you fly fishing below the dam at the outlets.

Above the dam thats why those bouys have been there since I can remember, you are not to be inside of those bouys boating, fishing or swimming let alone diving!

John

[Danoinark]

Can't we talk about more real productive issues, like Shufflin'...

I think that after some rethinking of the threat, y'all are right and should defiantly avoid this area, especially the TR tailwater and the Pothole.

We appreciate your cooperation in reducing the magnitude of any threat.

Thank You

Oh, that's good. Wayne excellent advice. I hope everyone takes that into consideration

[Terry Beeson]

Wayne, very good idea.... you guard pothole... Dano, you oversee Outlet 2...

I'll take one for the team and stand guard at Outlet 1...

If they bomb the dam, I'll holler at both of you...

OH... and I'm sure Leonard will take up post at rebar...

Duckydoty... where're you gonna set up post?

Oh... wait a minute... We'll take the day shift and give Leonard and Duckydoty the night shift...

Just think of all the fishermen's lives we're gonna save!!!

[Danoinark]

Dano, you oversee Outlet 2...

Terry are you nuts. I think I might wanna take on al Quaida than some of the fishermen at #2....

[WebFreeman]

Can't we talk about more real productive issues, like Shufflin'...

Now this should be our concern. All they shuffling is going to erode the foundation of TRD and cause it to tip over!! Then we'd really be in trouble.

[Terry Beeson]

All they shuffling is going to erode the foundation of TRD and cause it to tip over!! Then we'd really be in trouble.

Now you've got ME laughin' at MY monitor, WF...

"You've learned well, young grasshopper..."

[WebFreeman]

Just imagine if they were shufflers of mid-Eastern descent!! Oh, boy!! We need snipers dressed like buzzards on the dam!!

[Snow Fly]

Hope they don't blow the BIG HORN when the dam goes, we would never hear from MrDucky again But on second thought If MrDucky was on guard duty, and knew the BIG HORN would sound in case of an attack, MrDucky would fight to the very end! Why? MrDucky he no like the BIG HORN

On a serious note.....For some reason I thought after 9/11 the tours down into the interior of the dam were discontinued. Seems to me an explosive device in the interior of the dam would have more chance of success.