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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
Another failure was the Grand Teton Dam failure,
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Cadillac Desert is a damned good read on the subject of the wars between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers.
Teton was a bad idea from the git-go.
From Wikipedia:
There were four key reasons, known prior to construction, why the Teton Dam should not have been built in the first place:
1. it failed cost-benefit analysis, delivering irrigation water at prices far out of reach of local farmers;
2. supposed flood control benefits were illusory, in light of subsequent events tragically so;
3. a significant number of local interests did not want it built and challenged the legality of it in court;
4. it was sited in an area of known instability.