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Vaiont Dam
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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. Author not available, VAIONT DAM. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ...
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Piave
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... flowing 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, after ...
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Landslides
Water:Science and Issues
... these dip slopes. Examples of dip-slope failure are Italy's Vaiont Dam disaster in 1963 that killed 2,600 people, and the Gros ... brings the soil and rock down the slope. Falls are the free fall of detached materials, usually rocks, which descend ...
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