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  2. Dam failure - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. List of hydroelectric power station failures - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Category:Dam failures in the United States - Wikipedia

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  5. Sayano-Shushenskaya power station accident - Wikipedia

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    Cross-section of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam. The Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam is located on the Yenisey River in south-central Siberia, Russia, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Sayanogorsk, Khakassia. Before the accident, it was the largest hydroelectric power station in Russia and

  6. As removal of dams frees Klamath River, California tribes see ...

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    The dismantling of four hydroelectric dams, which began in June 2023 and has involved hundreds of workers, is the largest dam removal effort in U.S. history.

  7. What happened to Minnesota's Rapidan Dam? Here's what ... - AOL

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    Those figures make this flood the second largest in the dam’s history. The levels had begun to lower by Tuesday, county officials said. Water continued flowing around and eroding the west side ...

  8. The largest dam removal in history stirs hopes of restoring ...

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    Work on the dam removal project began in June. The smallest dam, Copco No. 2, was torn down by crews using heavy machinery. The other three dams are set to be dismantled next year, starting with a ...

  9. 1975 Banqiao Dam failure - Wikipedia

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    The same storm caused the failure of 62 dams in total. The runoff of Banqiao Dam was 13,000 m 3 per second in vs. 78,800m 3 per second out, and as a result 701 million m 3 of water was released in 6 hours, [12] while 1.67 billion m 3 of water was released in 5.5 hours at an upriver Shimantan Dam, and 15.738 billion m 3 of water was released in ...