Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Harsey
Think of a string of dams built on a single river coming out of a mountain area.
If an upper dam should fail, the lower dams couldn't hold.
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Beaver dams, maybe - modern dams are designed and built with ' overflow' mechanisms to prevent just such a scenario.
Richard 
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