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Post Falls Dam is a dam on the Spokane River in the city of Post Falls, Idaho. The current dam was constructed in 1906 on the site of an older wooden dam that was used to power a sawmill. Post Falls Dam is commonly referred to in the singular, but the facility actually contains three dams spanning three channels of the Spokane River as it ...
Aug. 5—A wildfire burning above the Spokane River near Avista's dam in Post Falls grew to about 80 acres as an "aggressive air attack" Saturday looked to suppress the blaze. The Parkway Fire is ...
Aug. 4—A fire on Avista Utilities land in Post Falls has spurred evacuations for people living near the Spokane River in the city. ... It's burning about 20 acres near Avista's Post Falls dam on ...
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 ...
The Teton Dam was an earthen dam in the western United States, on the Teton River in eastern Idaho.It was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, one of eight federal agencies authorized to construct dams. [4]
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]
Later that month, local officials in Nashville, Illinois, warned of an imminent dam failure after a 6-inch rainfall as the Nashville City Reservoir Dam overtopped. Some residents reported waist ...
A breach of the wall would have obliterated only a couple of small towns and a sparsely settled agricultural area in the relatively narrow 120 km Mitta Mitta valley below the dam, but more significantly, would have resulted in the over-topping and probable failure of the earthen walls of the 40m high 3,038GL Lake Hume, 200 km downstream on the ...