CHARLESTON, W.Va. - West Virginia's watershed dams are old, getting older and need to be repaired, but no one knows how much that will cost, or even what kinds of repairs are needed.
"It is an issue... we currently can't address."
"the agency... has no idea ...what we own and what we don't"
"... the agency has requested help ..."
We have 170 watershed damns in the state, 100 of which are apparently problematic, but we have TWO MILLION people... whose healthcare is going to be in the hands of just this sort of government bureaucracy.
Imagine a few years hence, when ObamaCare is fully implemented. I am fairly confident I can write the media story in advance:
West Virginia citizens are old, getting older and need to be repaired, but no one knows how much that will cost or even what kinds of repairs are needed.
Methinks we're about to have bigger problems than the 83 state dams that will be "a half-century old" within the next five years. West Virginia has one of the oldest populations in the nation and a high rate of out-migration to other states in search of economic opportunity. What's to become of us when we need to be repaired and the ObamaCare bureaucrats "can't address" the issue?
West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin throws up his hands.
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