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The attention should be on what we need to do for those students right now. There are two kinds of schools: those that aim to get better all the time and those that aim to get through the year. Too many of them aim to get through the year.
In theory, the answer is to fix the short-term focused schools and make them true participants in their communities. In reality, however, that takes time. If there is one thing students cannot waste, it is their time in school.
Schools like P.S. 106 can turn it around. We've seen schools with the right leadership rebound. Movies have been made about them, but they do not rebound in 90 minutes like they do on screen.
Ideas to combat troubled schools are controversial. They get labeled too liberal or too conservative, and that is too bad because it keeps most reform off the table. Maybe a school voucher program is not the best idea in all scenarios, but in a case like this would it be worth exploring?
The idea of using vouchers is usually criticized as a way to make bad public schools worse while propping up private schools. Well, what if some of these public schools are already in bad shape? Could we use a temporary voucher program for a limited number of students who attend the poorest performing schools? What would be the risk? People may raise constitutional issues, but a similar pilot program was used in Washington, D.C.
There is nothing more depressing in education than seeing a student trying to learn and being surrounded by disruptive students who commandeer the classroom. In troubled schools, there are always some students that want to learn, and letting them down is our fault.
A major part of developing good students is having them around other good students. This is why a bad school is so dangerous. We need a system that rescues the students are making the effort, because their time is too valuable. If they are in a school that has no long-term vision, that only looks to finish another year, we need to get them to a better place.
A plan like this could be temporary. If we really think we can fix some of the troubled schools, we should be willing to allow a voucher plan into the system for the time being. In the meantime, communities and educators can revamp the failing schools.
This is about students who try, and unfortunately that is not all of them. Getting into a charter or private school requires some effort to qualify, and that would still apply in any assistance program. We need to give good students in bad schools a chance.
If students do not try, it's on them. If they try and the school we've given them fails, the responsibility is with us.

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Yeah, the cake is a Portal thing. Let's dispense with introductions and get right down into it this week before GLaDOS barges in.
Not new but I think it is worthwhile to reflect on the impact rogue/fake AV products have. Not only did I get the joy of cleaning one such infection off my own dad's system, last week I painfully listened to another dear friend tell of dropping almost $400 to local PC shops to remove another such infection…in the end they just reinstalled Windows for him. I told him to call me first next time. My local pizza house rates are much cheaper, and I find it perversely fun to hunt and clean this stuff off a system.
- Rogue Antispyware: WireSharkAntivirus -- Yep. Leave it to someone to seed the world with this weed. Unfortunately it is playing on a very large and well-known name in the network and security business. More: Sunbelt Blog: Oh yea, right! A rogue named "Wireshark"
- Sniff free or die » Antivirus Outbreak -- This is the legit Wireshark blog's personal account of the aftermath of their name being hijacked by this fake av product. The company had to deal with and field and guide irate and disgruntled persons contacting them since they thought Wireshark was responsible for the fake av product. Sadly that wasn't the case, but folks just don't seem to figure this out. From the post.
Communicate. Luckily its victims were visiting www.cacetech.com, so we could pass along updates in near real time. Google and Bing helped track down users posting questions to online forums. I responded to each question with any information I had at the time.
People don't run AV software. Seriously — you should at least be running something like MS Security Essentials by now.
Even cake is dangerous. One of the infections apparently happened while looking for pictures of cake on Flickr.
- Fake Antivirus abuses regular software names - Avira - has some more background analysis into the fake tool itself.
- Remove Wireshark Antivirus (Uninstall Guide) - Bleeping Computer - guide from Grinler to getting it off.
It's my understanding that the free VIPRE Rescue tool can also cleanse it from a system.
- "Wireshark Antivirus" Malware · Wireshark -- PSA by Wireshark including multiple links to manual-removal instructions.
- Sunbelt Blog: Fake MSRT "suggests" you purchase a rogue - Yep. Even the name o Microsoft's own legit Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is now being used by the fake av scam artists. Nothing is sacred here folks. Constant Vigilance!
- Anti-malware tools crumble under Virus Bulletin tests - Donna's SecurityFlash via SC Mag.
The winners: Microsoft Security Essentials, AntiVir, Avast, Agnitum, AVG, EmsiSoft, Eset, Kaspersky, Symantec, PC Tools, Check Point, Lavasoft Ad-Aware, Kaspersky and of course, Sunbelt and many others.
- Clam AntiVirus - Recently released in version 2.0. This is not your father's ClamAV any longer. Now includes "cloud-based" protection engine and many more enhanced features. See also VRT: ClamAV Release Announcements for a full detailing of the little devil.
- Alureon Evolves to 64 Bit - Microsoft Malware Protection Center - This was fascinating and a sure sign of the growing prevalence of x64 bit systems. Alureon is a rootkit that has commonly targeted x32 bit Windows systems. Security teams noted the inclusion of an inert file called ldr64 as part of the file system. Lately it now has morphed into an active version that can infect 64-bit systems. Fortunately, it's presence is detected by Microsoft Security Essentials and evidence is easy to find manually if running. The Disk Management pane of Computer Managmenet console will be blank of all local HDD and DiskPart command doesn't locate any disks when "list disk" is run.
Tips and Techniques
- E-discovery is hard -- Security For All -- Be careful what you ask for!
- Computer Forensics: Identifying Disk Differences -- Broken Mirrors -- SANS Computer Forensic Investigations and Incident Response Blog -- excellent process walkthrough of validating your disks to be examined when potentially in a mirror state.
- Digital Forensics Recertification (Beyond the Cert) -- SANS Computer Forensic Investigations and Incident Response Blog - -Encouragement for the front line troops.
- Computer Forensics: Using Evidence Cleaners to Find Artifacts -- SANS Computer Forensic Investigations and Incident Response Blog -- I think what the post is saying is that you can learn a lot about potential evidence locations by studying the tools offered to clean them.
- Getting Started in Digital Forensics: Do You Have What It Takes? -- SANS Computer Forensic Investigations and Incident Response Blog -- great reality check for folks who are considering the digital forensics field as a career.
- Digital Forensics Case Leads: An OS X based Live CD, a Free Forensics App for Windows, Spying, and High Performance Password Cracking -- SANS Computer Forensic Investigations and Incident Response Blog -- Lots of tips, particularly the Creating an OS X Incident Response CD for Live Response link.
- Acquisition -- Apple Examiner. New (to me) Apple forensics-centric website Apple Examiner with some guides to addressing acquisition of late-model Macintosh systems. Lots of good stuff here! hat-tip to TinyApps blog for bringing this to my attention.
- OS X: Mount disks as read only or block automounting altogether -- TinyApps.Org Blog then goes to the mat with a word of a GUI tool Disk Arbitrator to change OS X's automount behavior.
- Forensic Linux Live CD issues - Forensics Wiki. TinyApps also passed me this link to a long list of potential "gotcha's" when relying solely on software/LiveCD based forensics distributions to perform "forensic" drive acquisitions. It would do well to be familiar with these issues in advance. As always, it seems the only rock-solid way to guarantee a non-writeback acquisition of a drive occurs is to use a proven hardware-based forensic bridge; say the Tableau T35es and their T8-R2 or the WiebeTech USB WriteBlocker
- NetAnalysis Date and Time Fields -- Digital Detective. Great write up of Windows time/date field handling.
- The Pitfalls of File Initialization for Forensic Analysts -- cmdLabs -- more learning opportunities await!
- The U.S. Department of Justice hosts an ongoing series of publications including forensic releated documentation. Note these gems! While there are only some "recently" published works here and most are a bit dusty, these all remain great resources.
Review a complete list of reports from the Computer Forensic Tool Testing Program.
See also test specifications, support software and test documentation for:
Making Material
- Fundamental Computer Investigation Guide for Windows -- Microsoft TechNet -- Not sure where I came up with this. Dated back from 2007 but still is a small free resource zip file to download, read, and archive. Besides the primary information document, it also contains some DOC files to use as worksheets and templates…or as inspirations to design your own. Download
The Fundamental Computer Investigation Guide for Windows discusses processes and tools for use in internal computer investigations. It introduces a multi-phase model that is based on well-accepted procedures in the computer investigation community. It also presents an applied scenario example of an internal investigation in an environment that includes Microsoft® Windows®–based computers. The investigation uses Windows Sysinternals tools (advanced utilities that can be used to examine Windows–based computers) as well commonly available Windows commands and tools.
- I'm not sure where I found the link from, but the US Justice Department's CyberCrime Laboratory created an awesome Digital Forensic Analysis Methodology Flowchart (PDF link). Print this one out. Study it, and keep it handy for review.
- Just dropping this older GSD Post Focus on Forensics Linkfest in the mix here as it contains links to multiple templates and forms for chain of evidence recording and such.
- Intro to Report Writing for Digital Forensics -- SANS Computer Forensic Investigations and Incident Response Blog -- Must read because it never is enough just to dig up the pieces during an investigation, to be successful you must document your process as well as present it in an understandable manner for non-technical folks to understand and technical folks to be able to validate.
Tools and Utilities
- Quickpost: .LNK Template Update -- Didier Stevens -- tool update to now identify well-known Shell GUID's as well. See also his .LNK template post for additional info.
- Fget -- (freeware) -- HBGary tool "…The fget tool forensically extracts files from raw NTFS volumes on remote windows systems in your domain. This tool works over the network and can extract any file (including those that are locked and in-use) in a forensically sound manner, without altering target filetimes or attributes. In particular, the tool can be used to extract files that are critical to timeline reconstruction." Spotted via this FGET: Network-capable forensic data acquisition tool post at Help Net Security.
- Fingerprint -- (freeware) -- HBGary tool "…framework for scanning binaries (preferably binaries extracted from memory so they are already unpacked). It allows scanning for ascii/wide strings and byte patterns, then annotating results. Results are saved in an xml format and can be compared to previous results. The goal is to allow quick development of new search patterns and easy comparison to previous binaries." Spotted in a great write up Open Source Malware Fingerprinting – Free Tool at the ESET ThreatBlog.
- Historian -- (freeware) -- Reads history, bookmark, cookie and cache information for raw browser files from Gaijin software. Recently updated to version 1.4.4. While there are lots and lots of tools now to help with browser history examination, I still like having different ones at my disposal to give me flexibility in both analysis and reporting.
- RegFileExport -- (freeware) -- It's a new NirSoft tool! This gem is a CLI tool to "…easily extract data from offline Registry file located on another disk drive. RegFileExport read the Registry file, ananlyze it, and then export the Registry data into a standard .reg file of Windows. You can export the entire Registry file, or only a specific Registry key. RegFileExport may also be able to export some of the Registry data even when the Registry file is corrupted and cannot be loaded by Windows. Check out the whole page to get the usage and "more information" areas understood as well. It can even handle extraction of Registry data from XP restore points! "You can find the Registry files of every restore point under C:\System Volume Information\_restore{guid}\RPxxx\snapshot. However, you must change the permissions of this folder in order to access these files, or alternatively, you can run cmd.exe as a SYSTEM account (with 'at' command), and then you'll be able to access this folder and the Registry files that are stored in it. Be aware that the _restore{guid} subfolder also has 'hidden' attribute." Sweet!
- TinEye Reverse Image Search -- I thought this was cool. Suppose you come up with a image file that appears to have been downloaded from the web, but you don't have a context for the source? You could try TinEye to see if you could find locations where the file came from on the Web. While it would be difficult to say with certainty that was the source, it might help provide some interesting information especially if taken as part of a larger context of data. via Idée Labs
Mostly Wireless
I had spotted that the next two items were recently updated and then decided to go ahead and list other wireless-related utilites since birds of a feather…well…you know…
- Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector -- (freeware) -- Xirrus now updated this neat tool to v1.1.1
- inSSIDer Wi-Fi Scanner -- (freeware) -- MetaGeek updated their BOSSIE winning tool to a newer version (1.2.8.0331). I also see their forums says version 2.0 is working its way to Beta release in September. Link with screenshots here: inSSIDer 2.0 Preview
- WirelessNetView v1.27 -- (freeware) -- NirSoft tool
- BluetoothView v1.37 -- (freeware) -- NirSoft tool
- BluetoothCL v1.05 -- (freeware) -- NirSoft tool
- WirelessNetConsole v1.00 -- (freeware) -- NirSoft tool
- WirelessKeyView v1.34 -- (freeware) -- NirSoft tool
- D-Link routers get DNSSEC and CAPTCHA protection - HelpNet Security post
Oh those DLL eyes
- It's those darned DLLs again... -- Windows Incident Response blog -- Probably the very best roundup and review of the latest DLL "vulnerability" now capturing the attention of the for/sec groups since the .LNK brouhaha.
- Malware Persistence without the Windows Registry -- M-unition Blog -- Noted here both for the great technical explanation of the issue as well as the provision of a free tool to help assess the situation on a system. From Nick Harbour's post:
I've written a program to identify all locations and filenames that a DLL could be placed to achieve persistence on a given system. The idea is that you can run this program on a clean (Gold Image) system and forensically search for any DLL name listed in the output on a machine you suspect of being compromised with this method of persistence.
The program examines running processes and determines hijackable DLL locations by the following properties (applied to each loaded dll in every running process in the system):
- The process executable that loaded the DLL is not located in the System32 folder
- The DLL name is not found in the KnownDlls object
- The DLL is not found in the same directory as the executable
Any loaded DLL that contains all three properties is susceptible to being trumped by search order hijacking.
The tool (compiled and source) to identify possibly malicious 32-bit DLL locations from a clean system can be found here.
You have to run it from the command line and it requires "elevated" or administrator privileges to run.
Also, the output will be to the CLI window. Depending on how much data you have you may not be able to see all the results.
Try "piping" the output to text with a command similar to below. Then when done open the resulting text file in notepad.
finddllhijack.exe > dllwatchlist.txt
Worked great on my x64 Windows 7 Home Premium system and I got output of a total of 560 different dll files/locations to keep an eye on.
"Here be Dragons" caution: This tool doesn't provide a "smoking gun" to any actual malware-based dll's or vulnerabilities. So please don't go deleting stuff just because it shows up here. That's not the point of the tool. It does help collect information about potential targets for the examiner to then consider with the points made by Mandiant above.
Returning to the linkage roundup…
- Windows DLL flaw may affect hundreds of programs -- TechBlog -- Dwight Silverman spells it out for the masses.
- Quickpost: Ariad & DLL Preloading -- Didier Stevens -- Yep. Didier already has some tools for that…Ariad (no file execute) and SRP
- DLL Preloading - Update Microsoft Recommendation -- TripleCheck Consulting Blog -- Thoughts on mitigation of the risk.
- Exploiting DLL Hijacking Flaws and Better, Faster, Stronger: DLLHijackAuditKit v2 -- Metasploit also provides a system auditing tool to help examine the issue on your own systems. This isn't for the faint of heart. Check out this DLLHijackAuditKit v2: Better, Faster, Stronger DLL Tests! post for a distilled guide from PenTestIT on how to get it armed and working. Read the Metasploit posts for the full picture.
Finally let's let Microsoft give us all the remaining bits of the scoop from their perspective.
- Microsoft Security Advisory (2269637): Insecure Library Loading Could Allow Remote Code Execution - Microsoft TechNet Security
- More information about the DLL Preloading remote attack vector - Microsoft Security Research & Defense Blog
As well as their tool to help mitigate the issue (platform specific tool download links at the bottom of the page). Just read well to understand the tool and how it works before using!
- A new CWDIllegalInDllSearch registry entry is available to control the DLL search path algorithm -- Microsoft Support.
And if you haven't guessed it, this is just a new resurgence in an old exploit.
- MS09-014: Addressing the Safari Carpet Bomb vulnerability - Microsoft Security Research & Defense Blog - April 2009
- DLL Preloading Attacks - David LeBlanc's Web Log - February 2008.
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Meanwhile, the gentle fireflies, flustered by daylight, imagine they see the love light in the blazing yellow petals. There were fireflies — and only fireflies — all over the black-eyed susans:
And what are these huge all-black wasps? Sphex pensylvanicus - the Great Black Wasp? They were into hugging these bulbous yellow flowers:
I kept getting closer, trying to get my camera into the right position, and then I suddenly became aware of myself and didn't want to photograph gigantic wasps anymore.


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Star Wars Convention Under Assault by Star Trek Crusaders
The Los Angeles Convention Center before yesterday's attack.
LOS ANGELES – It was an otherwise bright and balmy day at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles yesterday. However, underneath the calm exterior, a far more sinister and brutal scene was taking place. At noon a group of extremist Star Trek fans assaulted the building in the middle of the largest official Star Wars convention, Star Wars Celebration V.
In a matter of hours, the combined force of cosplaying Klingon, Federation and Romulan fans had secured a little over half the premises. They had soon erected a 12′ tall statue to Gene Roddenberry, also consecrating the convention center as holy ground in his name. Despite the fierce Trekkie assault, the Star Wars fans have managed to secure their own ground within the center due to an unprecedented truce between the imperials and the jedi.
Fighting continued throughout the night with many of the taller Trekkies donning Jar Jar Binks costumes for brave suicide raids on enemy defenses. Not to be outdone the Star Wars fans managed to erect a pair of large projection screens on the front lines, playing so called "reset" episodes of Star Trek: Voyager in an endless loop to break the enemy's spirit. Despite the efforts of both sides, neither has yet managed any sort of conclusive offense and the stalemate is expected to continue for some time to come.
The crack imperial cosplay 501st unit prepares to join the fray.
In the hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate, both sides have sent ambassadors to Los Angeles' anime community and online anime forums hoping to strike an alliance with the remaining fandom super power. So far there has been no word from the anime community, supposedly the gift boxes of Star Wars: Clone Wars have not been well received, while the 3 foot scale models of the Enterprise A may have won the Trekkies a critical diplomatic victory with the model makers.
The decision, however, largely hinges on the currently split demographic of Yaoi slash fic fans. A recent surge in high quality Kirk/Spock and Luke/Han doujins has completely divided the already fractured community. Proposals for an updated Chekov/Sulu pair, using the actors from the new J.J. Abrams movie as models, have become a popular hope for breaking the deadlock.


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Drinking with Tom Sandoval
on January 21st, 2014Print This Post
Lotss of fans would enjoy having a drink at SUR Restaurant & Lounge with bartender Tom Sandoval, but I am not sure that his girlfriend, server Kristen Doute, wants to do so after watching the last two episodes of Bravo TV's hit show Vanderpump Rules.
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With Peter Madrigal
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The episode of Bravo TV's hit show "Vanderpump Rules" that aired last Monday took place in Los Cabos, Mexico, where Stassi Schroeder flew down with some of the staff of SUR Restaurant & Lounge to celebrate her 25th birthday. Among the celebrants were Schroeder's ex-boyfriend Jax Taylor, Peter Madrigal, Tom Sandoval, Kristen Doute, Scheana Marie and Katie Maloney, both accompanied by their boyfriends.
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With Scheana Marie
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Tonight on the Vanderpump Rules saga some of the SUR Restaurant & Lounge staff are in Los Cabos, Mexico, to celebrate Stassi Schroeder's birthday. After watching the previous episodes, I am not sure who has been invited. Will Scheana Marie be there? Over last season, she had become friends with Schroeder, but the relationship dissipated over time.
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With Stassi Schroeder & Guillermo Zapata
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If Guillermo Zapata's birthday party on the hit Bravo TV show Vanderpump Rules went smoothly two episodes ago, it was not the case of Peter Madrigal's 30th birthday celebration in the last episode. Zapata is a co-partner of West Hollywood's SUR Restaurant & Lounge where Madrigal is a manager.
Server Katie Maloney had a little too much to drink during Madrigal's party (she admitted this to me last week when I popped in at the restaurant). And she talked too much. Turn on your TV or DVR for tonight's show and see if she was right….
With Steven Vanhauwaert
on December 17th, 2013Print This Post
As you may know, my favorite thing to do when I am out of the house, but not in a restaurant, is to listen to classical music. That is what I did Saturday afternoon when the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra was performing its 69th Season Winter Concert at Barnum Hall.
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AT&T will sell two Samsung tablets starting Friday: the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 for $499.99 and the ATIV Smart PC for $799.99.
Both are eligible for a $100 discount when purchased with any Samsung Galaxy smartphone on a two-year contract.
The 11.6-in. ATIV tablet from Samsung will sell for $799.
The 11.6-in. ATIV, available exclusively at AT&T, runs Windows 8 and can be upgraded to Windows 8 Pro. As a result, it runs existing software and apps that run on Windows 7, Vista and XP, among others. A trial version of Office 2010 is also provided.
The ATIV has 64GB of storage, a microSD card slot and offers LTE network capabilities. The Intel Atom dual core processor is clocked at 1.5GHz.
The ATIV is distinguished by its detachable keyboard dock, so that a user can switch between a clamshell laptop and a tablet.
The Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 has a 10.1-in display, runs Android 4.0 and supports LTE.
Wireless access will cost $10 a month for each tablet under the AT&T Mobile Share plans, which require purchasing a monthly allotment of gigabytes of data that can be shared with up to nine other devices.
Samsung announced the ATIV in August, along with other tablets and a smartphone using the ATIV name but didn't divulge pricing.
The $800 price tag for the ATIV Smart PC is considered a premium for a tablet by most analysts, especially when some standalone tablets are going for $200 to $329 with much less storage and no detachable keyboard. Microsoft has defended the higher price partly because of the interoperability of Windows 8 with previous versions of Windows.
Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld. Follow Matt on Twitter at @matthamblen or subscribe to Matt's RSS feed. His email address is email@example.com.
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Jail Birds newspaper offers reward for arrest of dead teen
Family: Ernest Logan was victim of homicide, not suspect
An upstate family is demanding an apology after a recent edition of the Jail Birds paper.
The edition that serves the counties of Spartanburg, Cherokee and Union offered a $5,000 cash reward "for anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of Ernest Logan" and "other persons" involved in the February 2010 homicide of Sharon Elaine Bryant.
"This woman passed in 2010. My brother was killed in 2004," Natasha Logan told WYFF. "People I haven't heard from in years (are asking me if) my brother murdered somebody."
Bryant, 50, was a mother of two who was found dead inside her South Center Street home in Spartanburg. To date, no arrests have been made in her case.
Logan's case also remains unsolved. In July 2004, the 16-year-old was shot to death while sitting in a car on Union Street.
"He was an awesome kid. Our loss was tremendous," Harvey Logan Jr., Logan's brother, said. "I haven't seen anything like this on a reward for his murder."
Capt. Regina Nowak, with the Spartanburg Public Safety Department, said her agency provides information and photos to Jail Birds to help generate leads in unsolved cases.
Nowak said when police became aware of Jail Birds' publishing error, they notified the paper about the need for a retraction. Logan's family is still waiting to see a retraction.
"An apology wouldn't even be enough for me," Harvey Logan Sr., told WYFF. "If somebody else's family is thinking that (my family) caused bodily harm ... I worry about my other kids' safety."
Jail Birds did not respond to a request for more information sent via email.


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Balsam Mountain Preserve is off the hook on one front: it didn't need a permit from the state dam safety office before constructing a dam at its golf course.
The earth dam, which held back an irrigation pond, collapsed in early June. Immediately following the dam break, it was unclear whether Balsam Mountain Preserve should have gotten a permit for the dam's construction.
A permit is required if the dam meets one of two litmus tests. The first is if it is taller than 15 feet and holds back 10 acre feet of water - defined as a 10-acre pond one-foot deep, or one-acre pond 10-feet deep, or any variation there of. A dam also needs a permit if its failure poses a potential hazard downstream.
Based on the report of an engineer hired by Balsam Mountain Preserve, the state has ruled that a permit was not needed.
"We felt comfortable that it did not require a permit we are happy they agreed with that assessment," said Chris Crouch, golf course manager who is now overseeing the cleanup.
Balsam Mountain Preserve's dam did not qualify as a high-hazard dam, said Max Fowler, state dam safety officer in Raleigh. That is evident by the fact that it failed but caused no loss of life or injury. Property damage downstream is limited to environmental devastation, altered stream channels and washed out yards, but no structural damage.
The other litmus test that would trigger a permit - the height of the dam and volume of water it held - was more iffy. At 36 feet, the dam certainly exceeded the height requirement. But did it hold 10 acre feet of water? The state required Balsam Mountain Preserve to hire an engineer to determine the pond's volume prior to the dam break.
According to that engineer, the dam only held 7.5 acre feet of water - the surface of the pond was 0.76 acres and the pond was 14-feet deep - coming in below the threshold.
"According to the engineer's report, the dam did not hold 10 acre feet or more of water," Fowler said. The state did not send its own engineer to check the figures provided by Balsam Mountain Preserve's engineer, but said it has no reason not to trust the report.
"The engineer and surveyor hired by the dam owner are licensed by the State of North Carolina. The licensing rules place the welfare of the public safety above the service to the client. These professionals risk losing their livelihood should they present inaccurate or false data," said Jim Simons, the director of the state Division of Land Resources, which is over the dam safety unit.
While the state hasn't done official calculations of its own, it did review the numbers, Simons said. "Our dam safety engineers have seen the lake, reviewed the surveyor's information and determined that the surveyor's calculations appear reasonable," Simons said.
Tough enough?
Given the ecological devastation caused by the dam failure, it begs the question whether the threshold that triggers a permit should be tougher. However, Simons said the "current threshold for dam safety jurisdiction generally appears to be working."
That said, dams that don't go through the permit process have a higher failure rate than dams that are subject to oversight, Simons said.
"Certainly, the dam safety permitting process provides an assurance that the dam meets a certain standard that may or may not be present if the dam is not permitted," Simons said.
In an interview the week after the dam break, Fowler guessed the failure was caused by poor design of the dam's outflow pipe - a pipe buried at the base of the earth dam that lets water pass through from the pond on the other side into the creek below. Had Balsam Mountain Preserve applied for a permit, Fowler said at the time he would have taken issue with the design of the outflow pipe. It turned out Fowler was right.
Balsam Mountain Preserve was required to hire yet another engineer to examine the cause of the dam failure. The engineer concluded that soil around the outflow pipe had slowly eroded, creating a weak spot in the dam's wall.
The soil packed around the metal pipe was a bad consistency in the first place and wasn't compacted properly, according to the engineer's report. Plus, the outflow pipe wasn't fitted with the proper seep collar system. All that led to a slow erosion of the earth dam around the pipe.
"The breach resulted from unsuitable soils and inadequate compaction around the outflow pipe and seepage collar," according to the engineer's report filed with the state. "No provision for seepage control was provided in the downstream portion of the dam foundation. No compaction testing was performed during fill placement."
Dam Escaped State Permit Threshold
August 23, 2007
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