Episode 32
The Catastrophic Night When Not One, But Two Dams Gave Way
March 24, 202214m 30s
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Show Notes
It was a horrific disaster. Two earthen dams, built in the 1800s, collapsed. It sent 140 million gallons of water barreling down into Danbury, Connecticut. The tragic deaths and mind-numbing property damage that it caused devastated the city - and worried reservoir managers nationwide about the safety of relatively new earthen dams.