Photos, Mill Ave Bridge area lake draining after Dam Burst

[Vex Harrow]

There's a Flickr account displaying some images of the drained lake.

Among the photos is a surreal, depressing display of the shrinking puddle and mud slick as people have been describing it on Twitter. News reports suggest that the merchants (hopefully listening to civil engineers) expect that the lake can be refilled and running again by Nov 1.

100SMILLAVE also has a YouTUBE video of the drained Tempe Town Lake from yesterday. (Warning: loud drumming don't have the volume up.)

Not much else to report on the thing, people are certainly enjoying the spectacle of the failure. Civil engineers are still arguing about how to repair he failure, there's probably an investigation in place and I expect a lawsuit. I am interested in how much the repairs are estimated to cost. Not just the cost of patching or replacing the section, but the economic cost of the failure to the reputation of Tempe.