Falcon Dam is desperate need of repair and has been threaten once already by terrorist drug dealers from Mexico trying to blackmail and threaten the U.S.
RT news reported recently on a U.S. Court ruling that shields public safety info due to potential terrorism concerns.
A US appellate court decision this week could allow federal agencies to withhold public safety information related to crucial infrastructure concerns or environmental disasters because of potential use of that information by “terrorists or criminals.
A US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia panel apparently ruled this week that such information should be concealed from the public by US government entities for “law enforcement purposes” because “terrorists or criminals could use that information to determine whether attacking a dam would be worthwhile” (source: RT news).
The decision, the panel referenced to a “intelligence alert” from the US Department of Homeland Security that outlined an alleged plan by drug traffickers in Mexico to blow up Falcon Dam in an effort to terrorize or blackmail authorities here in the United States.
“The alert states that traffickers warned some local residents to evacuate in advance of a possible attack on the dam. That record evidence confirms what common sense suggests: The inundation maps, if disclosed, could reasonably be expected to endanger life or physical safety” (source: DHS).
Falcon Dam is an earthen embankment dam on the Rio Grande between Starr County in the U.S. state of Texas and the city of Nueva Ciudad Guerrero in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, that has deteriortated badly due to neglect and officials putting off necessary repairs.
The dam was built for water conservation, irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, flood control, and recreational purposes and as an international border crossing between Zapata and Starr Counties and Tamaulipas. Construction on the dam began in December 1950 and ended in April 1954 but it was dedicated by presidents Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Dwight D. Eisenhower in October 1953.
The report noted that two major structures, the Falcon and Amistad Dams, are both in ‘urgent’ need of repair”. Something we were not supposed to know under the ruling.