West Routt Library District

A celebrated photojournalist, Alex Graham has recorded some of the world's most tragic and heartbreaking stories. But her latest assignment has forced her across a dangerous line. At a dam collapse in Arapahoe Junction, Colorado, Alex witnesses a conspiracy that will shock a nation-if she can stay alive long enough to reveal the truth. For the collapse of the Arapahoe Dam was not an accident. The official story is just a cover-up for a truth so frightening,...

The purpose of this report is to document the failure of the Havana Street Dam which occurred on September 12, 2013. A site investigation was performed as soon after the dam failure as possible to collect evidence of the failure in order to document the cause and consequences of the failure and to chronicle the events so that lessons learned could be gleaned for future application to dam safety regulations, policies, and procedures.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889 was a lively, working-class factory city. Above the soot-soaked streets, an elite fishing and hunting club, built on a pristine man-made lake, drew America's wealthiest business barons. Though repeatedly urged to fix the deteriorating dam that held the lake, the club members disregarded the warnings. And when heavy rains came, the dam collapsed and plunged the city into chaos. On that fateful day, six children found...

On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, below; told in the voices of six children and many others this is the story of the ordinary people of the town, their losses and their survival--and of the bitter aftermath when those for whom the dam was built denied all responsibility for the shoddy dam...

Lieutenant Jamal Jenkins and his pararescue team are sent to the highlands of the Nile where a burst dam has caused massive flooding, and a humanitarian crisis; but contending local war lords make it difficult to get people the food and medicine they need--especially after one of the team's helicopters is shot down in the crocodile infested Nile River.

Recounts the breaching of Lawn Lake Dam and flood of Estes Park on July 15, 1982, and aftermath.