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The collapse of Teton Dam killed 11 people [5] and 16,000 livestock. [6] The dam cost about $100 million to build and the federal government paid over $300 million in claims related to its failure. Total damage estimates have ranged up to $2 billion, [7] and the dam was not rebuilt.
1 day ago · A portion of Teton Pass “catastrophically failed,” Wyoming authorities said Saturday, leaving a massive hole along a mountain pass that’s a critical link between small eastern Idaho towns and the tourist destination of Jackson, Wyoming. Photos. Updated 7:12 PM PDT, June 8, 2024. JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A large chunk of a twisting mountain ...
Jun 5, 2016 · As the world soon learned, the 305-foot-high Teton Dam had broken in half. Its collapse sent a wall of water cascading through the Teton River canyon, north of the town of Newdale in Fremont...
Jun 5, 2020 · REXBURG — The images of the Teton Dam breaking on June 5, 1976, remain a vivid reminder of the terrifying, but also awe-inspiring, nature of the disaster. But the images don’t quite compare...
Sep 4, 2009 · How did the dam fail, in spite of its state-of-the-art construction technology? Was it a flawed design, bad material, or faulty construction? Panels appointed by the Bureau of Reclamation and the state of Idaho explored all those possibilities, but a conclusive explanation eluded them.
Teton Dam History. On June 5, 1976, Teton Dam in southeastern Idaho catastrophically failed. Early that Saturday morning, bulldozer operators tried in vain to plug seepage holes on the downstream face of the dam.
May 31, 2016 · At 11:57 over 250,000 acre feet of reservoir water, equivalent to 81.5 billion gallons, broke through the Teton Dam and rushed downstream. Wilford, Idaho was the first town hit, followed thereafter by Sugar City which reported a 15 foot high wave of water at 1:00 p.m.
Erupting one peaceful Saturday morning, the failure of this dam destroyed several towns, killed 11 people, drowned over 15,000 heads of livestock, and damaged over $2 billion of property in the area.
The Teton Dam Disaster Collection is a compilation of newspaper articles, oral histories, and published materials including government reports on the failure of the dam. Newspapers from Idaho Falls and Rexburg reported on the Teton Dam disaster and aftermath between 1976 and 1977.
Created by Alex Schneider, Fall 2021
