Dam Cracked, Little Dutch Boy No Where to be Found.

By Alex in Everything Else, Pictures on Jul 12, 2006 at 1:02 am

If you think your home renovation project is bad, look at this: the world’s tallest dam in Brazil has developed a giant crack just months after completion.

GIANT cracks have opened in one of the world’s tallest dams, just months after completion. The cracks appeared after a tunnel collapsed on 20 June beneath the 200-metre-high Campos Novos dam in southern Brazil, and the reservoir rapidly emptied. At one point, 4000 cubic metres of water (more than enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool) were rushing downstream every second towards a second dam on the river Canoas.

Link – via starspirit


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  1. Mary
    Jul 12th, 2006 at 10:22 am

    Wow. That’s even worse than the Big Dig.

  2. Thermus
    Jul 12th, 2006 at 11:35 am

    @Mary

    Why did it kill someone and cost more than $18B? Oh, wait, why is it worse?

  3. Mauricius
    Jul 20th, 2006 at 6:47 am

    World’s Tallest? Not even near. There are countless dams in Brasil and surely that one isn’t the neither the biggest or the tallest.


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