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The Teton Dam was an earthen dam on the Teton River, United States.
It was built by the Bureau of Reclamation, one of eight federal agencies authorised to construct dams in the US. Located in the eastern part of the state, between Fremont and Madison counties, it suffered a catastrophic failure on June 5, 1976, as it was filling for the first time.
The fascinating horror of the Teton Dam failure, is a testament to why completion at all costs can be a bad thing!
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http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=452961
http://sylvester.faculty.geol.ucsb.edu/Teton_Dam/narrative.html
https://www.usbr.gov/pn/studies/henrysfork/reference/tetondameis.pdf
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The Unforgettable Calamity – 40th Anniversary of the Teton Dam Failure
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I assume you’ll eventually do a video on the edenville dam failure in Michigan. ASDSO (association of state dam safety officials) has some great resources on it. Luckily no one was hurt, but as a dam safety rep in the Midwest it’s certainly very concerning
You constantly have to remind yourself that this was in 1976 America and not in 1930 deepest Africa.
Well, I'll be dammed.
Lovely video, as usual! One thing: if you ever need to reference Boise, Idaho again, it's pronounced like "Boy-Zee". I don't know why, it just is.
Woo! A local story
I love that you pronounced Boise as “boys.”
title card: "Corporate greed fucks up everything again"
I can't see the actual number of dislikes anymore because Google's design directors have about as much sense as the bellends who pressed ahead with building this dam deaf and blind to all warnings…
…but I'm sure most of them are from you mispronouncing Boise. It's pronounced "Boyz-ee"
The guy who designed the dam as it washed down the swollen river probably said "Im going to go ahead and blame the environmentalist…..Because if they would have protested just a little bit louder and fought a little bit harder this definitely wouldn't have happened probably" 😂😂😂😂😂
My great grandpa and my grandpa worked on the Teton dam as heavy equipment operators. We always have the running joke in the family that they didn't do a very good job building the dam
A couple of points regarding this presentation: while the failure mode mentioned is accurate, there was a second failure mode not mentioned: seasonal freezing of the material being compacted in the interior zones formed horizontal bands of material that was not bonded to each other – even without the porous nature of the bedrock there is strong evidence that the dam structure would have sheared with the pressure of the completely filled reservoir over time. My second comment/recommendation is to please learn how to pronounce place names and company names. Example: Teton = tea – ton.
0:25 I seen that..
Sunk cost fallacy rip
love how the construction businessman straight up said "no you're wrong" to the geologists who explained the geological issues. he just said "no." lmfao
These are the people that are retired and making our policies now.
I have the hobby to recommend science-channel to those in
c-sections under science-channels… i mean… its kinda self-explanatory, really…
Anyway, want some?
"My Balls have more value!"
Why did I read it on Duke Nukem's voice?
that short 9-second music clip at the beginning of the video is the fourth movement of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade
All that money in construction just gone. How you can ignore problems that can wash away so much money is beyond me
The "This will definitely affect the Trout population" jokes are messed up; but….
Did anyone stop to ask how it might affect the Trout population ?
You see that wall that's supposed to not let water through? Well it letting water through.
Totally fine right?
After seeing a few of these earthen dam failures, it seems that the main part of the plan is "fill in the blanks".
im watching this video
As someone who lives in the Teton area, I'm really glad you made this video 🙂
When you build a damn dam with highly erodible materials I think it's time for a career change.
1:02 Get-there-itis, to use the term of art.
That damned dam.
This DID affect the trout population
Boise is pronounced Boy-zee. Although your pronunciation was understandable! Americans and the French language don’t always work well together!