El Atazar Dam |
| El Atazar Dam is an arch
dam.
It is higher than 17 houses on top of each other.
It is almost 7 houses wide at the bottom.
It holds back a lake of more than 750,000,000 bathtubs of water.
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The dam is located in Spain.
Its lake is a supply for drinking water. |
| The El Atazar Dam cracked in the middle near the bottom.
This is a picture from a computer simulation of
the cracking in the dam.
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This is a headline from a Spanish newspaper that said the dam was not cracked.
But it was.
That is called politics. |
| Click here to see an animation
of a crack growing in an arch dam.  |
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Click the forward arrow to learn
about the second example of a cracked dam.
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