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"South Carolina Flooding: 18 Dams Breached, More Trouble Ahead" [1]

"At least 18 dams have breached or failed in South Carolina since Saturday, the state's emergency management agency said early Tuesday.

One failure, of the Overcreek dam in Forest Acres, sent a torrent of floodwater raging downstream and forced a mandatory evacuations near Columbia."

CNN had the story October 5, 2015. [2]

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Source: CNN [2], 10/06/2015
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/south-carolina-flooding-18-dams-breached-more-trouble-ahead [2] http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/06/us/south-carolina-flooding/ [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81