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Taum saux dam - project

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Taum sauk Have you heard of the Taum Sauk Dam? It's located in the Saint Francois mountains, Missouri. It had a major mishap in December 2005. This project is to explain the mishap and to design a solution to handle the issue of overflow. We used legos to design this project. Taum Sauk Location: St. Francois mountain range, Missori Built: 1960 - 1962 Purpose: Hydroelectric Power Plant Details: 2 Reservoirs: Upper and Lower. The law of thermodynamics says the flow of water turns the turbine which operates the generator to produce electricity. Research: On December 14, 2005, the Taum Sauk Dam, a hydroelectric power plant located in the St. Francois mountain region, failed. It failed when overtopping [Go to British Dictionary definitions( if you don’t know where this is, go down until you see it)] caused the upper reservoir to collapse. How it functioned is it pumped water from the  This is a molecular model(It might have been an actual situation