VAIONT DAM

858 ft (262 m) high, on the Vaiont River, a tributary of the Piave River, in Venetia, NE Italy, near Belluno. Vaiont Dam, one of the highest in the world, was completed in 1961 and is used to generate electricity. After heavy rains in 1963, landslides into the Vaiont reservoir caused the stored water to spill over the dam, sweeping away the village of Longarone and flooding nearby hamlets; some 2,000 people drowned.

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Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship
Book by Raymond Murphy; Westview Press, 1994
Subjects: Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, Environmental Degradation, Environmentalism, Social Ecology
...environmental matters. In 1972 the Teton Dam was constructed in eastern Idaho...in the last five years, that dam reservoirs cause earthquakes, and concluded that a failure of the dam would cause catastrophic flooding...occurred in Italy before the Vaiont Dam burst in 1963. "The Italian...
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The Whole World's Watching: Decarbonizing the Economy and Saving the World
Book by Martyn Turner, Brian O'Connell; John Wiley & Sons, 2001
Subjects: Air--Pollution--Economic Aspects, Carbon Dioxide Mitigation--International Cooperation, Global Warming--Prevention--International Cooperation, Renewable Energy Sources--Government Policy--International Cooperation, United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change--(1992)--Protocols, Etc.--1997 Dec. 11
...hydro are never discussed fully. A dam should not inspire ultimate confidence...cataclysmic events. In 1963, the Vaiont Dam in Italy split open sending a tidal...destruction of property. The Three Gorges Dam will create a reservoir 370 miles long...
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Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster
Book by Keith Smith; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Disasters, Environmental Risk Assessment, Natural Disasters
...communities are at risk from dams believed to be unsafe and...foundations of the Malpasset dam, France, failed in 1959, 421 people died. Even dams that are structurally sound...major flood surge behind the Vaiont dam in Italy. Although the structure...
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Global Change and Challenge: Geography for the 1990s
Book by Robert Bennett, Robert Estall; Routledge, 1991
...nuclear winter. Chernobyl, in 1986, provided an illustration of what could happen if a nuclear power station were severely damaged by an earthquake. In another case, the Vaiont Dam disaster in 1963 was produced by 250 million m 3 of rock
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Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean: Processes and Perspectives from the Past and Present
Book by John Wainwright, John B. Thornes; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Human Ecology--Mediterranean Region, Human Geography--Mediterranean Region, Mediterranean Region--Environmental Conditions
...with here. The landslide at Vaiont in northern Italy is one of...followed the construction of a dam on the Piave river (Petley...material, the filling of the dam was carried out slowly and carefully...lowered as Figure 6.8 The Vaiont landslide of 9 October 1963...


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Vaiont Dam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VAIONT DAM 858 ft (262 m) high, on the Vaiont River, a tributary of the Piave River, in Venetia, NE Italy, near Belluno. Vaiont Dam, one of the highest in the world, was completed in 1961...
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Piave
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...generally S, past Belluno, to the Gulf of Venice. The upper Piave basin is subject to severe seasonal flooding (see Vaiont Dam ). Hydroelectric power is produced along the upper Piave; the lower river is used for irrigation. In World War I...


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