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AMERICAN FALLS — As the water level in American Falls reservoir drops to about 50,000 acre feet in an impoundment with a capacity of 1.7 million acre feet, the flow coming out of the dam is both ...
Until engineers constructed the temporary dam in 1969, no one had seen the bare rock face of American Falls since March 30, 1848, when an ice jam from Lake Erie stopped the Niagara River. AP Photo ...
American Falls is recognizable for the immense rock pile, or talus, at its base, the result of a series of natural rockslides over the years. In the late 1960s, concerns were growing that further ...