Broadway Lake Dam's Flood Gate Failure

It might be time to tone down the prayers for rain. I know we have been in a terrrible drought but the heavy rains we have seen lately are taking the blame for the damage to the floodgates of the Broadway Lake dam in Anderson SC.

County officials must determine how much it will cost to fix the gate, or if they should wait and push for $30 million of federal money it would take to replace the lake's dam, bridge and spillway. And in the usual way of politicians doing things, several politicians started pointing fingers at each other in an article in the Independent. yet once again, politicians squabbling instead of solving. No big surprise there.

Somehow I suspect the politicians that push for the $30 million solution have friends or family that will benefit from doing the work. But there is no doubt the work should have been done in the past but isn't hindsight always 20/20? And what does the finger pointing accomplish?

It sure does not help the residents of Broadway Lake.