They should strongly consider not rebuilding the dam, or build a much smaller one, the people that push hardest to build dams, are the people that make money building dams. Historically, they never have the benefits they expect them to have.
At least one good thing came of it
Retrospectively this is no wonder, retrospectively.
People need water and so they settle first near rivers. In older times rivers were the better roads in addition.
People lose things, put things to the trash, there are floods or boats sink…
In the time when the Kakhovka dam was built, some years after WWII, archaeology was much less important than today and not only in the Soviet Union.
This has changed. In Germany, meanwhile, you can plan with a few months “delay” for the archaeologists. Depending on the site of course. In Leipzig buildings from the 60s were demolished for making space for a shopping center. But the area there was where the city wall and a moat were some hundred years before. And there the archaeologists found remains of long gone buildings like cellars and also cesspools. And the latter can be very interesting, because also in the past people were hesitant to recover even a gem from a cesspool.
I read (I think here) that the best thing they could do is farm the land for a few years, making use of the highly fertile soil.
It made sense, amp the crap out of farming when it’s needed, no mines etc, then once the soil is exhausted put the damn back and move on.
Not sure how practical that is, I’m sure it’s pretty marshy land, but the idea is cool.
Honest calling it a goldmine is a poor chouce of words given the circumstances. Imagine if someone said that 9/11 had a silver lining while the fust was still settling!
On an unrelated note, Atlas Obscura was promoting tourism in occupied Crimea after 2014.
I kind of feel the items will not be digged up the right way, given the war and all. So not as good as if those things had been found in peacetime.
Russians cant even mass disaster properly…
In b4 Russia lays claim for “uncovering” the finds.
I don’t know… but rather than ‘disaster’, I would have expected to see ‘Russian ecocide’ in the title.
Not one iota of Russian criminal behaviour should slip through the net.
Russia needs to be held accountable for ALL their crimes.
One comment was they may have to restore the dam to provide water preventing a return to preSoviet floodplain. Couldn’t they just do enough deep agricultural wells, and a smaller targeted dam and flood control system?
I understand that the area has population and agriculture dependent on the water, it seems that the argument of a biodiversity given the mammal die off that the climate change is going to trigger
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They should strongly consider not rebuilding the dam, or build a much smaller one, the people that push hardest to build dams, are the people that make money building dams. Historically, they never have the benefits they expect them to have.
At least one good thing came of it
Retrospectively this is no wonder, retrospectively.
People need water and so they settle first near rivers. In older times rivers were the better roads in addition.
People lose things, put things to the trash, there are floods or boats sink…
In the time when the Kakhovka dam was built, some years after WWII, archaeology was much less important than today and not only in the Soviet Union.
This has changed. In Germany, meanwhile, you can plan with a few months “delay” for the archaeologists. Depending on the site of course. In Leipzig buildings from the 60s were demolished for making space for a shopping center. But the area there was where the city wall and a moat were some hundred years before. And there the archaeologists found remains of long gone buildings like cellars and also cesspools. And the latter can be very interesting, because also in the past people were hesitant to recover even a gem from a cesspool.
I read (I think here) that the best thing they could do is farm the land for a few years, making use of the highly fertile soil.
It made sense, amp the crap out of farming when it’s needed, no mines etc, then once the soil is exhausted put the damn back and move on.
Not sure how practical that is, I’m sure it’s pretty marshy land, but the idea is cool.
Honest calling it a goldmine is a poor chouce of words given the circumstances. Imagine if someone said that 9/11 had a silver lining while the fust was still settling!
On an unrelated note, Atlas Obscura was promoting tourism in occupied Crimea after 2014.
https://www.google.com/search?&q=crimea+site%3Aatlasobscura.com
I kind of feel the items will not be digged up the right way, given the war and all. So not as good as if those things had been found in peacetime.
Russians cant even mass disaster properly…
In b4 Russia lays claim for “uncovering” the finds.
I don’t know… but rather than ‘disaster’, I would have expected to see ‘Russian ecocide’ in the title.
Not one iota of Russian criminal behaviour should slip through the net.
Russia needs to be held accountable for ALL their crimes.
One comment was they may have to restore the dam to provide water preventing a return to preSoviet floodplain. Couldn’t they just do enough deep agricultural wells, and a smaller targeted dam and flood control system?
I understand that the area has population and agriculture dependent on the water, it seems that the argument of a biodiversity given the mammal die off that the climate change is going to trigger