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Condition of some US dams kept secret in national database

Signs in Spanish warn of approaching river side of the Rockwall-Forney Dam in Forney, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The National Inventory of Dams contains neither the hazard classification nor a condition for the dam, which impounds Lake Ray Hubbard to supply water to more than 1 million people in the Dallas area. A 2021 inspection document provided to the AP by Dallas shows the dam is classified as high hazard and has several issues. (AP Photo/LM Otero) River water flows from the Rockwall-Forney Dam in Forney, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The National Inventory of Dams contains neither the hazard classification nor a condition for the dam, which impounds Lake Ray Hubbard to supply water to more than 1 million people in the Dallas area. A 2021 inspection document provided to the AP by Dallas shows the dam is classified as high hazard and has several issues. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Fencing surrounds lake side of the Rockwall-Forney Dam in Forney, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The National Inventory of Dams contains neither the hazard classification nor a condition for the dam, which impounds Lake Ray Hubbard to supply water to more than 1 million people in the Dallas area. A 2021 inspection document provided to the AP by Dallas shows the dam is classified as high hazard and has several issues. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Water flows out of the Rockwall-Forney Dam in Forney, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The National Inventory of Dams contains neither the hazard classification nor a condition for the dam, which impounds Lake Ray Hubbard to supply water to more than 1 million people in the Dallas area. A 2021 inspection document provided to the AP by Dallas shows the dam is classified as high hazard and has several issues. (AP Photo/LM Otero) FILE - Water flows down the Oroville Dam's crippled spillway in Oroville, Calif., on Feb. 28, 2017. Americans wondering whether a nearby dam could be dangerous can look up the condition and hazard ratings of tens of thousands of dams nationwide using an online database run by the federal government. But they won't find the condition of Oroville Dam, which underwent a $1 billion makeover after its spillway failed. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) FILE - Water starts to flow from the lower jet flow gates at Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nev., Thursday June 11, 1998, during testing of the newly installed jet flow gates. Americans wondering whether a nearby dam could be dangerous can look up the condition and hazard ratings of tens of thousands of dams nationwide using an online database run by the federal government. But they won't find the condition of Hoover Dam, which impounds one the nation's largest reservoirs on the border of Nevada and Arizona. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)
Condition of some US dams kept secret in national database