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When the dam failed, 600,000 m 3 of mining sludge flowed 4 km. The nearest houses were located 300 m downslope of the dam; when the wave of water and tailings reached them, it was 2.5 m high. Seventeen people were killed and there was widespread devastation and environmental damage. Eighty houses were destroyed. [2]
‘All of us ended up in the water’: Victims’ relatives, survivors give emotional accounts of Sapelo Island’s gangway collapse Rebekah Riess, CNN October 23, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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A final photo has emerged of North Carolina grandparents on the roof of their home, surrounded by floodwaters, minutes before they drowned due to Hurricane Helene. Jessica Drye Turner’s family ...
The dam wall had a volume of 360,000 m 3 (13 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) and held up to 168.7 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 (5.96 × 10 ^ 9 cu ft) of water. The dam and basin were intended to be at the centre of a complex water-management system in which water would have been channeled from nearby valleys and artificial basins at higher levels.
The dam ruptured after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water. [3] With a volumetric flow rate that temporarily equaled the average flow rate of the Mississippi River, [4] the flood killed 2,208 people [5] and accounted for US$17,000,000 (equivalent to about $590,000,000 in 2024) in damage.
The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office said two children who died Thursday after falling into a river near the Shasta Dam were caught up in a rockslide near a campground.
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]