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The 1963 dam break that flooded parts of Los Angeles
mardi 25 mai 2021, 17:59 , par BoingBoing
Dam failures have been fascinating me. Los Angeles' Kenneth Hahn State Park features a former reservoir and the remnants of a dam that failed in 1963, the Baldwin Hills dam.
KCET: See, land developer 'Lucky' Baldwin had struck crude oil in the area in 1924 – and subsequent operations on the Inglewood Oil Field caused disturbances in the Pliocene- and Pleistocene-era marine sediments that formed the foundation of the dam and reservoir. — Read the rest
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