From what I can tell we've known the dam downstream of #Pittsburgh has been on the verge of failure for at least a decade now, and have done nothing but temporary patch jobs. When it fails, is Pittsburgh still going to have a source of water, or does the city just die?
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https://www.lrd.usace.army.mil/Missions/Projects/Article/3639259/emsworth-locks-dams-major-rehabilitation-project/ was published in January 2024, but if you actually read it you can see the text is from 2007. If the Army Corps of Engineers is publishing a 2007 report in 2024, that means nothing changed in the meantime.
And from https://www.lrd.usace.army.mil/Missions/Projects/Article/3640878/emsworth-locks-and-dams/ , "An incidental benefit derived from the pool formed by the dam is the availability of a source of municipal and industrial water."
I don't care about the ability to ship coal on the rivers. In fact, I'll celebrate if they lose the ability to do that. But if we're depending on the Emsworth Pool to get water, that's not good.