when a dam bursts in movies it might be a mesmerizing spectacle but in real life everything's a little different you are now looking at the largest most technologically advanced dam in the world with a length of 2,335 M and even this miracle of engineering was unable to hold out against the enormous pressure of the water behind it today we'll show you how this could happen but before we get to that subscribe to our Channel and click on the like button hurry the surging waters are already near this is the worst thing to see near the yogger phone mine the deepest hand excavated hole in the world on the 11th of September 2022 the yogger phone time tailings damn wall collapsed due to a structural failure the aftermath on satellite images showed the flood was up to 1 and 1/2 km wide and stretch for about 8 1/2 km that's equivalent to the length of about 94 soccer fields the flood also covered more than 26 Square km of land with mud and debris damaged Road and rail infrastructure as well as water and electricity networks disrupting the entire functioning of the city by the way there are more than 200 more tailing dams in South Africa and some of them as in Yer phone are located near highly populated areas it may not look like a big thing but the brascar ride F dam is located on Norway's longest river where the power plant is located and when the storm Hans brought record high river levels to Scandinavia the dam partially collapsed the glomma river was flowing at 2,500 cubic m per second equivalent to filling an olympic sized swimming pool every second the control room was flooded and it was not possible to un block the hatches the authorities feared that the brascar ride F Bridge might collapse and even considered blowing up the dam to improve the water flow luckily the dam collapse was miraculously controlled and only 20 empty houses the road to the power plant and a parking lot were destroyed more than 1,000 people were evacuated before the collapse began this is the Milana dam in the state of Himachal Pradesh and its total capacity is 9, 340 km of water but in August 2023 as a result of heavy rains the capacity exceeded 10,000 km and burst in the place where no one expected you'll be surprised but because of the flooding more than 2,500 square km in the state of Himachal predesh and three other neighboring states got underwater which is comparable to the area of Luxembourg and that's not all because more than 700 roads including National highways were closed due to landslides caused by the dam break the state's damage amounted to 12,000 CR rupees which is about $1. 6 billion [Music] us this is the largest hydroelectric Dam in India which holds water in a full Reservoir with a height of 605 M or I mean it held it until July 30th 2014 when heavy rain caused the walls to collapse and huge amounts of water and debris to flow into nearby Villages and left an entire State without electricity until it was fixed and that's no coincidence this project was controversial from the beginning because the site was located on an extremely unstable riverbed and less serious breaches of this Dam have already occurred in 2008 2009 and 2010 this is not a waterfall you looking at the akosombo dam where the water level rises above the maximum operating level of 85 M the release of water was necessary to prevent the dam from failing but the scale of the flooding was enormous for example the area of Mee the largest city that was affected Before the Flood was about 12 square km and after the flood the area of the city was reduced to less than four square kilm and the city was fortunate enough because other settlements such as ala a and AK completely disappeared under the water and this Dam didn't even collapse this time right now you looking at a massive release of water at the Shang weni Dam after heavy sustained rains in the area this well-timed move miraculously saved the dam which holds back about 68 billion cubic M of water from a critical Break by comparison that amount of water is enough to fill more than 67,000 olympic sized swimming pools just take a look at the consequences from flood water flowing out of the dam at speeds of up to 80 km an hour all the people living in the river area had to be evacuated and then about 2,000 houses were damaged several Bridges and roads were simply washed over away and that's how quickly 160 cubic M of water would pour out if the water barrier was destroyed of course this is only the test run of the project but this water flow already shows how strong the final structure should be release billions of gallons of water from a dam into the Grand Canyon why not to restore the sand bars repel Dam released water at a rate of 1,18 18 cubic m/ second which is enough to fill an olympic sized swimming pool every 8 seconds and the colan Dam had to release water very quickly due to heavy rains because the inflow of water was 445 cubic m/ second and the outflow was 28 cubic m/ second this means the dam was receiving 15 times more water than it was releasing this is how dams can be fixed on on the go in early 2023 the US Army Corps of Engineers prevented damage to a Stevens Creek Dam by fixing it right off a barge but when these empty barges snapped off their Moorings and hit the Oklahoma Dam on Arkansas River in 2019 there was a mandatory evacuation in the city the barges could cause catastrophic damn failure but it happened otherwise luckily no one was hurt this body of water that you see on Google Maps was a reservoir for irrigating a desert landscape it held some 900 million tons of water unfortunately during the construction of the dam The Building Company decided to save money and spent only half as much on materials as was needed on May 1st 2020 due to unusually strong winds a powerful wave rose up which first destroyed the lower part and subsequently the entire Dam now you're looking at Nasa imagery this is before and here is after the water traveled a distance of 60 km and even gathered along the border with the neighboring country of Kazakhstan an area of 610 Square km that's nearly the size of the entire state of Texas after the damn failure some gigantic catfish were flung ashore which the government even tried to use as a reason for the breach if you enter dust lick mfy into Google Maps you'll find a hotel near the reservoir and you can see for yourself the flooding of the area in real time on August 17th 2009 an ordinary working day began at the seano shushin skaya hydroelectric Dam but at 8:13 a. m.
this happened due to the failure of a critical part a large volume of water began to surge out of a turbine cavity the pressure was so great that the whole building flooded in a matter of minutes the water followed on workers heels and began to flood the parking lot you can hear popping these are short circuits that led to a complete blackout at the hydroelectric plant the gates remained open and there was nothing to hold the water back the water rushed through the dam and swept along with it were 40 tons of machine oil the total damages from This Disaster exceeded $100 million and repairs took a whole 5 years Puerto Rico has 38 dams and every single one of them has been rated as having a high Hazard potential so when hurricane Maria struck the island a damn failure was only a matter of time Lake guaica quickly overflowed and a crack appeared in guaa Dam the green expanse which you're looking at now is the dam itself and a powerful surge of water is gushing from its side this is how the breach looked from the air 70,000 residents of the affected area were told to just run for their lives the water quickly reached the local community and left behind enormous destruction this time the dam managed to stand but for how long if the dam ever really collapsed 37 million cubic M of water would issue forth from the reservoir in May 2020 a new Lake appeared in Midland County Michigan it Formed several hours after the failure of two dams at a Michigan hydroelectric power plant due to heavy rains the waters Rose to a critical level workers at the hydroelectric plant tried to release the water but the pressure was too strong and the dams collapsed this is how the lake looked before the breach and here's what it looked like after all the water from the lake roared forth in a surging torrent along the tid boasi River and along the way it destroyed a bridge carrying traffic forests and Fields were flooded the waters 2. 7 M deep it was the worst flooding Michigan had ever seen imagine you're sitting on the couch watching YouTube when suddenly your house is floating away that is exactly what happened to residents of the Russian town of rusa after a nearby damn burst in mere days the area had seen a whole month of rainfall the Goro de Yanka River over float as drainage pipes had become clogged with trash the surging stream of water should have been held back by a series of three dams but now you're looking at the second of them they were simply Blown Away by such a powerful flow La is home to 16 hydroelectric dams and two of them have already failed the first breach occurred in 2017 in the central province of xang Wang after the rainy season the still incomplete naau Dam collapsed and half a million cubic met of filthy water came rushing down from the mountains just one year later a dam in southeast La failed in the adap province this too was due to extreme weather conditions a filthy torrent amounting to a whole five billion cubic M swept across nearby towns this was 10 times bigger than the 2017 disaster when the waters receded here is what was left of the towns yes indeed another 50 such dams are being built in LA but no one seems concerned about how prepared they are to deal with unpredictable weather in the region a dam in the Brazilian city of badino was supposed to contain millions of tons of Industrial Waste but just look here is what happened the dam had been made from sludge the cheapest and most readily available material upon contact with moisture the sludge became brittle and on January 5th 2019 the dam burst from the destroyed storage site so much waste issued forth that it could have filled 4,800 olympic sized swimming pools in order to build Colombia's largest hydroelectric Dam project Engineers redirected the course of a river the Surplus water had to pass through underground tunnels and into specially prepared channels but here's how things really happened a landslide blocked the third largest tunnel workers could not manage to clear it and then the water simply punched a hole through the blockage the flow was so powerful that it overturned the construction equipment weighing many tons and flooded a nearby town in just minutes on November 15th 2015 the largest breach involving toxic waste in world history occurred around the Brazilian town of Mariana a dam failed and it held back a reservoir with Industrial Waste from the mining industry over 42 million cubic met of toxic waste swept over a distance of 668 km and after 17 days reached the Atlantic Ocean the min's owners were fined $4. 8 billion not counting compensation paid to victims of the flood did you think that this is Niagara Falls no you're looking at an extreme release of water at the orille dam on February 7th 2017 a huge hole appeared on the dam Spillway the company running the dam had skimped on construction costs by a whole $100 million apparently they urgently needed to buy themselves some Lamborghinis instead and here's what ins sued heavy rains fell and the reservoir was greatly overflowing workers just needed to open the locks and release the water in order to avoid a breach in the dam what could possibly have gone wrong in just 1 second 2,831 cubic M of water passed through the spillway and here is what it turned into in a couple of days this dazzling water show led to losses of $1.
1 billion but the rainbow was was just perfect were those Lamborghinis worth it this Texas Dam decided to quietly retire after 91 years of faithful service this was Lake Dunlap on which the dam had been built on the morning of May 14th 2019 by evening the huge Reservoir had simply flowed away this is what people who had bought luxurious real estate on the lak shore were left with let's take a break from the dams have you ever played the floor is lava it's a cool game but visitors at kiev's largest Supermarket Ocean Plaza did not have fun at 7:00 in the evening residents of the Ukrainian city of Kiev returned from work and went out to cafes and shops it was at this time that a heating pipe burst in the city center hot water broke through the wall of the huge Ocean Plaza supermarket and flooded the entire first floor of the store this is how it looked from the second floor people were saving themselves by climbing on anything they could men carried a woman in their arms those who could ran out of the store ankled Deep in water good thing they were wearing their tight winter boots fortunately no one was seriously hurt look at this column of water no this is not a GTA game and CJ did not run over a hydrant this was in the suburbs of the Australian in city of Melbourne when a pipe burst and a huge column of water shot into the sky the Rushing Water Uncorked a 130 lb metal plug with such force that the plug flew up into the sky then crashed into a nearby house and collapsed the roof the fountain reached 262. 50 ft into the air like a 13-story building every minute 35 ,000 lers of water shot into the sky and 2 million liters poured into the suburbs amazingly a single employee of a plumbing company stopped this extreme breakage that guy's cooler than Superman in Houston Texas a water M burst and a violent stream came pouring out the rupture happened right beneath the highway and the water flooded the highway so quickly that the drivers didn't even have time to turn around the expressway turned into a lake and the water level Rose rapidly some drivers climbed onto the roofs of their cars and Rescuers had to recover them from there construction of the Auburn Dam began in 1968 the work lasted more than 25 years and $431 million were spent on the Colossal project can such an expensive project really fail in 1986 the Fork River and American River overflowed their Banks and the water level in Lake Folsom was rapidly increasing the Auburn Reservoir had reached its capacity and the drain could no longer accommodate the volume at one point water poured out through the dam like a giant waterfall the Breakthrough happened at 6:00 in the morning and by noon the volume of flowing water was 187 tons per minute for comparison the huge ship Titanic only weighed 52 tons three times less but that wasn't the end of it by the evening the water pressure had increased to 468 tons per minute that's nine Titanics in the end things got worse the gigantic 265 ft High Dam collapsed and water poured through the breach forming a real River this was one of the largest floods in US history in the second half of the 20th century the dam on the test Brook Reservoir was in need of repair for a long time see the young trees growing through the concrete this meant that there were cracks in the dam through which water had penetrated the management company received constant complaints about the condition of the dam but the company simply ignored the problem but in the end the reservoir War overflowed and streams of water rushed down the spillway at a speed of about 70 mph of course the old cracked slabs couldn't withhold it huge holes were punched in the dam at any moment the water could have broken through the dam so the authorities announced a mass evacuation wh Bridge emptied out in order to fill the hole in the dam as fast as possible 500 tons of sand were dropped in by helicopter this time everyone got lucky they managed to get off with just a minor stream of water four years ago Brazilians had already experienced a similar Dam break in 2015 a dam surrounding an industrial waste Reservoir collapsed near the town of Mariana the giant concrete wall crumbled like a sand castle a stream of mud 65.
