Talk:Austin Dam failure (Texas)

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At 11.20 a.m. on April 7, when the lake level had reached a height of 11.07 feet above the crest of the dam, the dam gave way at the point marked B in fig. 10, about 300 feet from the east end of the dam. Observers at E, F, and H all agree in their testimony that it first opened at B, and as though the mad current had simply pushed its way through the structure. Sooner than it takes to write these words the two sections AB and BC, each about 250 feet long, were shoved or pushed into the lower positions A'B' and B'C', about 60 feet from their former positions in the dam. There was not the slightest overturning. After the warning break at B, the water over the part ABC was seen to rise several feet, and the next instant the pent-up waters were pouring over the sections A'B' and C'B'.

Source from Page 42 and Page 43 of THE AUSTIN DAM by THOMAS U. TAYLOR

If this is out of copyright or not it's still virtually word-for-word copy of the text with removal of the references to the figures. This page needs rewritten. — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 20:38, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

I have some interest and sufficient access to references that I could rewrite. I agree, and someday I might have the time. Of course the Taylor work, and any other comprehensive writing on the incident, is out of copyright.Yak99 (talk) 00:58, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Article Titles

The lake impounded by the original Austin Dam is labeled on maps of the period as Lake McDonald, after the Austin mayor who advocated the dam's construction. I have been unable to find any historic reference to the dam by that name, however. It was always called Austin Dam, even in engineering books of the day where it was evidently regarded as a significant achievement, although it was a pretty minor construction compared with dams built 20 years later. Calling it Austin Dam would invite confusion with the better-known Pennsylvania disaster. It was frequently called the "Granite Dam", as the pink granite for its construction came (I now hypothesize) from the same quarries near Llano that supplied the construction of the Texas Capitol. In any case, the construction of the dam, and the (inflated) hopes the citizens of Austin had for its economic benefits, are a story in their own right, independent of the lurid story of its destruction. The article needs a more appropriate title. Might I suggest "Austin, Texas Granite Dam"?Yak99 (talk) 00:58, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

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