She closed her eyes. Muddy seepage was the final word. It meant the cracks weren't just in the joints anymore. The joints had failed so completely that water was jetting through, eroding the dam’s very bed.
The story the dam told now had only one ending. cracked full construction joints
Cracked full. The term echoed in her skull. She closed her eyes
For ten years, they did a convincing job. But pressure tells the truth. cracked full construction joints
The story began with the foundation, a bed of serpentine rock she had warned them about. "It breathes," she had told the project manager, a man named Hollis who saw concrete as a solution, not a relationship. "It expands when wet, contracts in dry. The dam will move."