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The reservoir emptying through the failed Teton Dam on June 5, 1976 Ruins of the dam of Vega de Tera (Spain) after breaking in 1959. A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water or the likelihood of such an uncontrolled release. [1]
The Machhu Dam-II collapsed, leading to the deluge of the city of Morbi and the surrounding rural areas. 1800–25,000 people were killed. [8] [9] 1979: Lawn Lake Dam: Colorado United States: Failed in fair weather due to a combination of poor construction, age, and neglect. Caused downstream failure of the Cascade Dam.
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Baldwin Hills Reservoir after 1963 failure, view south. The gash through the dam corresponds to the alignment of a fault. The Baldwin Hills Dam disaster occurred on December 14, 1963 (61 years ago) () in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles, when the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir suffered a catastrophic failure and flooded the residential neighborhoods surrounding it.
The St. Francis Dam Disaster Revisited Nunis Jr., Doyce B. Ed. Historical Society of Southern. ISBN 0-914421-13-1. Wiley, Andrew Jackson; et al. (1928). Report of the Commission appointed by Governor C. C. Young to investigate the causes leading to the failure of the St. Francis dam near Saugus California. California State Printing Office.
The partial failure of Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam sheds like on the almost 4,100 dams in the U.S. that are categorized at the same risk level and condition – or worse.
A history of flooding. Derna is prone to flooding, and its dam reservoirs have caused at least five deadly floods since 1942, ... Dam failures can be very hard to forecast, and are fast and ...
1971 Certej dam failure: Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County, Romania: Dam: 89 dead, 76 injured 1972: Buffalo Creek Flood: West Virginia, US: Dam: 125 dead, 1,121 injured 1972: Königs Wusterhausen Central Tower: Königs Wusterhausen, Germany: Lattice tower: 1973 Skyline Towers collapse: Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia, US Building under ...