McDonald Dam failure

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The McDonald Dam failure was a catastrophic dam failure near Austin, Texas in 1900 that killed several dozen people. The destruction of the dam drained the Lake McDonald reservoir and left the city of Austin without electrical power for a number of months.

Subsequent attempts to rebuild the dam were unsuccessful. The dam was finally replaced by Tom Miller dam, just upstream, in the 1940s.

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