The Teton Dam was an earthen dam in the western United States, on the Teton River in eastern Idaho. It was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, one of eight federal agencies authorized to construc
Dam failure on June 5, 1976
Large amounts of mud are now spilling down the face of the dam, unchecked by the efforts of the bulldozer operators. The outlet works at the foot of the dam are flooding with muddy water.
The dam is now breached and muddy water flows violently over the dam face.
The breach has now widened to nearly its full extent. The outlet works are completely inundated with muddy water.
The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity-arch dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States, that was built between 1
Teton Dam
…Great Sheffield Flood St. Francis Dam, a concrete dam near Los Angeles, which failed in 1928 resulting in over 400 deaths Fontenelle Dam, an earthen dam in southwest Wyoming, which partially…
View of the dam looking north, with water in its reservoir, in February 1927
St. Francis Dam in early 1928
The approximate extent of the reservoir created by the dam
The same view of the "Tombstone" post-collapse. The west (left) abutment was entirely swept away. The inactive San Francisquito Fault is clearly visible, being located along the contact zone of schist and conglomerate.