Hydrological Engineering

Today is the D-day. Today, the river is going to turn back to its original track. Original, so as to say. Being a new river, it started running through a different track, from a now very dillute source. It left marks on the terrain over which it ran through originally, probably indeleble. But now, it is running through other place. The repairments done to its basin made it necessary to be deviated through other course, but it was soon to be discovered that the new course was totally inviable, when the river escaped it violently, leaving a trace of death and destruction. During the repairment of these incidents, it was kept contained in the terrains it passed in its beginning, while the new original course was in preparation to embrace it again. These terrains suffered a lot of pressure and water saturation, which left them even more marked. It is expectable, even, that these terrains will become the lake that will be the source of this river, though the terrain might be too weak and unstable to hold it or whatever thing. It might collapse or stay strong for millions of years. You know, you never know with hydrological phenomena. But finally, the day has come. Now the river is going to be released to its original track. It is not going to be a slow releasing. The engineers expect it to be sudden and violent, in order to seal the new track and give it the naturality it needs; and draining the containing terrain as much as possible as well, to test its strength. The engineers expect it to be strong enough to hold the beginnings of the flow, and other rivers as well, which might be ephemeral. But the only known thing is that this river will flow through them for a period of time very close to eternity.

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