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Teton Dam Flood Museum, Rexburg, Idaho; Teton Dam Collection – Oral History reports and newspaper articles, includes more than 50 oral history interviews of those living in the area when the disaster occurred. Images showing progressive dam erosion damage, taken at the time by Mrs. Eunice Olson; Teton Dam Failure Narrative; Teton River Canyon ...
Machchhu Dam: Morbi India: 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.
Austin Dam failure (Texas) B. Baldwin Hills Dam disaster; Big Bay Dam; Broken Down Dam; Buffalo Creek flood; C. 2017 California floods; ... Teton Dam; V. Van Norman ...
A landslide caused the roadway at Teton Pass in Wyoming to collapse and crumble, in what the state’s department of transportation described as a catastrophic failure Saturday.
A large chunk of a twisting mountain pass road collapsed in Wyoming, authorities said Saturday, leaving a gaping chasm in the highway and severing a well-traveled commuter link between small towns ...
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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]
Then, at around 3 a.m. that Monday, residents downstream were alerted to the potential for a dam failure. "We followed that emergency action plan," Meyer said. As the water rose, it reached the ...