Damn, I hate it when this happens.

Water seeping through Howard Hanson Dam is picking up speedThe speed at which water is seeping through a flank of the Howard Hanson Dam has, by one key measure, increased since January, and the people who operate the dam don’t know why.

Officials with the Army Corps of Engineers said in a news release Tuesday that water is flowing through the 48-year-old dam’s right abutment “very fast” and may mean the earth-and-rock structure could erode if too much water is stored behind the dam 32 miles upstream from Auburn.