The Vajont Dam disaster began when about 574 billion pounds of rock collapsed into the reservoir in roughly 45 seconds. The impact created a tsunami-like wave that surged up to around 800 feet, ...

REXBURG — Jed Platt points to the flood line on display inside Rexburg's Romance Theater as he recounts the stories of locals who lived through the Teton Dam disaster. It's one of numerous businesses ...

REXBURG — Richard Robison remembers the day of the Teton Dam collapse well. He was 13 years old. "My dad got a phone call; he told us the Teton Dam was breaking," Robison said. "We knew there was a ...

From a Brazilian mining company's toxic mudslide to China's Banqiao Dam disaster that killed 230,000 people and was hidden for 30 years, these catastrophic failures reveal how negligence, flawed ...

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LANSING, MI — The flooding was historic. But it could have been worse. Dam safety officials say Michigan came far closer to a broad dam disaster during this month’s historic flooding than the public ...

REXBURG, Idaho (KIFI) — It was a warning that felt impossible until it wasn’t. Fifty years ago, a 305-foot-tall wall of earth and rock promised to bring irrigation, power, and progress to eastern ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Michigan Congress members have introduced bipartisan legislation inspired by the Edenville Dam failure that would tighten federal oversight of hydropower dams and improve ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) – Experts took a deep dive into the failure of the Teton Dam Wednesday during a panel commemorating the 50th anniversary of the disaster at College of Eastern Idaho. "The dam ...

After it wreaked havoc on east Lee in 1886, Mud Pond — now known as Basin Pond — fell back into relative obscurity. “Mud pond is a repulsive sheet of water,” wrote one commentator in the Berkshire ...