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The dam was designed in the early 1970s by the mine's metallurgical manager and a representative from the tailings dam contractor. [1] The town of Merriespruit, a 250-house suburb of the Goldfields town of Virginia , was already established when the No. 4 dam was started in 1978.
The Staunton River Bridge runs south-southwest to north-northeast over the River Staunton (which itself runs northwest to southeast) and along it runs the Richmond and Danville Railroad, a vital part of the supply system for the besieged Army of Northern Virginia. The bridge was defended by 296 Confederate reservists under the command of ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
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]
Severe flooding in the Midwest has left at least two people dead as heavy rains caused a bridge to collapse, a historic dam to be on the brink of failure and an entire town to be cut off by ...
On July 26, 2022, a secondary dam on the city reservoir was breached after over four inches of rain fell near Nashville in less than 12 hours, causing a 6-foot breach and flooding nearly 40 acres ...
The dam at the Nashville City Reservoir in Nashville, Illinois, is in "imminent" danger of failure, according to the Washington County Emergency Management Agency. Residents have been warned to ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Pages in category "Dam failures in the United States" ... State of California; R. Rockdale, Iowa; S.