{"id":25885,"date":"2023-05-25T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=25885"},"modified":"2023-05-25T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:33:39","slug":"coelho-discusses-potential-dangers-of-lake-conestee-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/coelho-discusses-potential-dangers-of-lake-conestee-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Coelho discusses potential dangers of Lake Conestee Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/gustavo-coelho\/\">Gustavo Coelho<\/a>, assistant professor of water resources in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/earth-environmental-sciences\/\">Department of Earth, Environmental and Sustainability Sciences<\/a>, was interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2023\/05\/24\/officials-push-fix-conestee-dam-avoid-catastrophic-break\/\">Fox Carolina<\/a> about the potential dangers of the Lake Conestee Dam, a structure built in the 19th century. The water in Lake Conestee, held back by the dam, has high levels of heavy metals from the long-ago textile industry. Coelho, who worked as a water resources engineer in Sao Paulo, Brazil, before earning his doctorate at George Mason University, told viewers the dam needs to be monitored closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gustavo Coelho, assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Sustainability Sciences, spoke wiht Fox Carolina about the potential dangers of the 19th-century Lake Conestee Dam and the high levels of heavy metals the dam contains. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":25887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6],"tags":[2108,2107,2109,2106],"class_list":["post-25885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","tag-earth","tag-earth-and-environmental-sciences","tag-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","tag-environmental-sciences"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}