1.   There was concern that the dam would go out under the force of the flood waters.

2.   But you had the sense the dam was going to break at any moment.

3.   Long after the project had been scrapped, researchers found snail darters in numerous other locations, suggesting to some that the dam could have gone forward.

4.   That case went to the Supreme Court, which sided with the fish, and only when Congress intervened did the dam go forward.

5.   The ensuing decades saw many more dams go up, along with a Central Arizona Project that delivers water from the Colorado River.

6.   The water is getting to the top, the dam is going to burst.

7.   When Mitch came, Santos says, the dam went first.