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Dam-Breach hydrology of the Johnstown flood of 1889–challenging the findings of the 1891 investigation report

In 1891 a report was published by an ASCE committee to investigate the cause of the Johnstown flood of 1889. They concluded that changes made to the dam by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club did not cause the disaster because the embankment would have been overflowed and breached if the changes...

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Autores principales: Coleman, Neil M., Kaktins, Uldis, Wojno, Stephanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4946313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27441292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2016.e00120