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145 - History's Most Interesting Non-Water Floods

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What Happened to the Coal Fly Ash Dam?

The largest industrial spill in the history of the united states turned out to be and now i'm just reading this to make sure i get this fact right. It was three times larger than the martin county sludge spill of two thousand and significantly bigger a hundred timeslarger than the exon valedese oil spill is the point so it sounds like this one's gonna have a happy ending because everybody got out and everybody was fine well then people have to come in to clean it up. There were about a one-minute flow where the same thing you described the dam shows a little bit of weakness and then boom it just all goes wow but then there were successive spills that happened after that

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