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The water won’t stop – minutes later, the dam burst on top of a Missouri mountain

Early on December 14, 2005, water quietly rose over the parapet wall of the Taum Sauk upper reservoir in Missouri. With no ...
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Watch a dam break open and unleash 5 million cubic meters

What began as a hidden sensor failure turned into one of America’s most destructive dam disasters in minutes. At Taum Sauk, the upper reservoir kept filling past safe levels until water spilled over ...