Word: damming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because the federal government decided that the Buffalo Mining Company couldn't dump this refuse-filled water into Buffalo Creek anymore (where it killed all the fish), the company began to build the first of three dams that would create ponds where it could dump the water. And the company could also kill two birds with one stone: it would build the dams out of the gob pile that just lay smoldering beside the mine--unhealthy situation that. You couldn't really call it a dam--no engineering, no overflow, no drains, just back some trucks up to the hollow...
Between the 24th and the 26th of February, 1972, 3.72 inches of rain fell on Logan County, West Virginia--not unusual as the state climatologist would later testify. But it was enough, because there were no spillways built into the dam. On the morning of the 26th, Steve Dasovich, head of operations at the Buffalo mine, sent bulldozers to relieve pressure on the dam. It was too late for that, though. When they got to the dam a little before 7 a.m., it was gone. And 21 million cubic feet of water and God knows how many tons...
...vigorous push. In early 1974 the Department of the Interior approached some 45 artists with the suggestion that they go on location throughout America and paint what they saw, provided that what they looked at fell under the department's jurisdiction: mountains and swamps, plains, beaches, dams, railroads, national parks, sawmills, highways. California's Joseph Raffael went to Hawaii and came back with large paintings of water lilies; New York City's best painter of cityscape, John Button, stood at the foot of the Shasta Dam and rendered its spillway with a blue geometrical clarity; Richard Estes...
Throughout the spring, the colonies' legislatures adapted themselves to once traitorous ideas. South Carolina and Georgia considered direct assertions of independence, but held back. North Carolina broke the dam when its Provincial Congress empowered its delegates in Philadelphia "to concur with the delegates of the other colonies in declaring independency...
Walsh has devoted most of his adult life to saving and protecting animals. He took part in "Operation Gwamba," which in 1964 rescued some 10,000 animals from the reservoir area of a new dam in Surinam, worked to curtail the slaughter of baby seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, set up feeding programs for starving huskies near the Arctic Circle and aided animals that survived an earthquake in Peru, floods in Italy and a hurricane in Honduras. But Noah II, which is scheduled to last until Christmastime, is in financial trouble. Letters to nearly a thousand...