Failure of Dam No. 3 on the Middle Fork of Buffalo Creek near Saunders, West Virginia on February 26, 1972 (1972) / Chapter Skim
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. In the thr ee hours it took to traverse the 17- mile len gth of the Buffalo Cre ek Valley, the flood produced damage estim a ted to be betwee n 30 and 50 million dollars.
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The team wen t to Buffalo Creek ,on March 4 , 1972, to t ake photo gr aplns and re c ord their personal ob se rv a tion s . Initially, the team made an ae ria l observat io n of th e darn s ites, th en a ground - le vel in spec tio n of Buffalo Cre ek Valley and the dam sites along Middle Fork .
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