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Figure 37. Men, choose your weapons. Volunteers getting ready to go to work

The Teton Dam Collapse: An Essay on Modern Catastrophe – Part 3

August 18, 2016 by 3 comments

Read Parts 1 & 2 here. [meteor_slideshow slideshow=”teton-dam-collapse”] Click on left arrow to advance photos in chronological order from right to left. AFTERMATH In the effort to understand the causes and origins of this monumental failure there were a number of conclusions arrived at by the various investigating committees. No final agreement was ever reached as to any single cause […]

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The Teton Dam Collapse: An Essay on Modern Catastrophe – Part 1

The Teton Dam Collapse: An Essay on Modern Catastrophe – Part 1

August 4, 2016 by Comments are Disabled

“As every dam engineer knows, water also has one job, and that is to get past anything in its way” David Macauley, Building Big, 2000. I have written in another article about a potential disaster that could occur in Iraq if the Mosul Dam fails. I described the conditions of the dam built during the regime of Saddam Hussein on […]

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