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...stream from which it takes its name. It is one of the most densely settled areas of Logan County, with a dozen coal mines and more than 10% of the population. Not much wider than a football field at some points, the hollow forms a natural funnel from the dam to the Guyandot River 17 miles away. Often, a heavy rainfall is enough to flood the valley's 16 mining towns, many of which border right on Buffalo Creek...
Holding Fast. After the other deputy's call, Mutters drove to the slag heap and checked with a mining official, who assured him that the dam was holding fast. Unconvinced, Mutters set out in his car to spread the alarm. But there was too little time, and the people of Buffalo Creek had been threatened too often before with false alarms about the dam. Some time after 8 a.m., the wall of slag burst open "like a bomb had hit it," according to one witness, and a huge mountain of water and sludge descended on the hollow, trapping many...
...bemused counselor of the Soviet embassy, Viktor Isakov, appeared at the office of Montana Senator Mike Mansfield. "We are puzzled by this request," he said. "Could you please explain?" Mansfield's staff declared that nothing could be done until the citizens asked for a new dam and raised their property taxes to provide flood control. After hearing Isakov's report, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin decided against intervention...
Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA built or improved enough roads to girdle the globe 24 times, enough bridges to connect New Orleans with Havana, plus 125,110 public buildings, 8,192 parks and 853 airports. The WPA companion agency, the Public Works Administration, gave posterity Hoover Dam, Chicago's sewer system and the aircraft carriers Yorktown and Enterprise. In all, the two agencies disbursed $9.8 billion...
Ruckelshaus has not hesitated to dispute other federal agencies' plans when they concern the environment. EPA opposed one of the Bureau of Reclamation's dam-building projects, the Interior Department's tentative approval of the trans-Alaska pipeline and, reportedly, the Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear test at Amchitka. As a result of such actions, Ruckelshaus has been called "the loneliest man in Washington." He shrugs:'"In a job like this, you're bound to ruffle some feathers...