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That gear and dam remind me of how I'd love to have a micro hydro system setup one day. They are silent and would be great for opsec!

Seems like it would be easy to defeat the padlock and open the gate to make a heck of a mess. Perhaps its an old mechanism no longer in use.

Bah, for some reason, I missed this reply. Steemit loses our replies pretty often apparently.