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  2. Piethorne Reservoir - Wikipedia

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    A stone-step cascade, or man-made waterfall, carried Piethorne Brook from Norman Hill Reservoir to Piethorne Reservoir. Another stone-step cascade was built as an overflow from Ogden Reservoir. Horses were used to pull wagons along tramways to haul materials on site.

  3. Belmeken–Sestrimo–Chaira Hydropower Cascade - Wikipedia

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    The Granchar derivation is connected via a 2.8 m reverse tunnel to the Iskar cascade that includes the Iskar Reservoir, which is the main water supplier of the capital Sofia. Between 1983 and 2000 via that tunnel water from the Belmeken–Sestrimo–Chaira Cascade was diverted to ensure additional supply for Sofia. [6]

  4. Blue Mountains Dams - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Cascade Dam is an earthfill embankment dam with a central concrete core which was completed in 1926. It is 26 metres (85 ft) high; 128 metres (420 ft) long; and holds 320 megalitres (70 × 10 ^ 6 imp gal; 85 × 10 ^ 6 US gal). The Upper Cascade Dam is another earthfill embankment dam, built in 1938.

  5. Vulcan Materials Company - Wikipedia

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    Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials, primarily gravel, crushed stone, and sand, and employs approximately 12,000 people at over 400 facilities. Vulcan serves 22 states, the District of Columbia , Mexico , Canada , Bahamas and the U.S. Virgin Islands .

  6. Travertine - Wikipedia

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    Travertine is a sedimentary rock formed by the chemical precipitation of calcium carbonate minerals from fresh water, [4] typically in springs, rivers, and lakes; [5] [6] that is, from surface and ground waters. [7]

  7. Los Angeles Aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    The resulting investigation and trial led to the retirement of William Mulholland as the head of the Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works and Supply in 1929. The dam failure is the worst man-made flood disaster in the US in the 20th century and the second largest single-event loss of life in California history after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

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