Sentence examples for dam collapse from inspiring English sources
The board's decision came despite growing concern about accidents after the Mariana dam collapse.
The dam collapse occurred at the Imperial Metals Mount Polley gold and copper mine near the town of Likely, in the Cariboo region of British Columbia.
A massive spill of waste material in a November dam collapse at the Samarco mine killed at least 17 people and has been called Brazil's worst environmental disaster.
Two days after the dam collapse, Mayor Avimar Barcelos described Vale as "incompetent and reckless". Vale workers, once proud, felt subdued.
In Brazil, meanwhile, BHP Billiton is facing criminal charges over the Samarco dam collapse a year ago, which left 19 people dead and hundreds homeless.
The disaster is known as the Samarco dam collapse – after the company which is a joint venture between BHP and Vale.
Water also swept away a man after a dam collapsed.
A mining dam collapsed and buried more than 150 people.
"Iraqis will ignore the problem until the day the dam collapses," he told me.
The dam collapsed at 8pm local time (1300 BST) on Monday, a state news agency reported.
Ahvāz had begun to decline in the 19th century when the dam collapsed and nearly destroyed the town.
