A few days later , thousands of houses in Ipswich and Brisbane were inundated Destroying as the Brisbane River rose and Wivenhoe Dam used a considerable proportion of its flood mitigation capacity .

It was led by British ISAF forces and focused Aiming on the Kajakai Dam and the towns in the area , which is a major power source for Afghanistan that had not been functioning Being_in_operation for a number of years .

One part of the mission was Operation Volcano , where British Royal Marines successfully cleared Emptying a large Taliban complex near the Kajakai Dam , as well as Operation Kryptonite which actually saw the clearing of the dam by allied forces .

617 Squadron , later called Name_conferral the Dam Busters , using Using a purpose-built `` bouncing bomb '' developed by Barnes Wallis .

The Möhne and Edersee dams were breached Damaging , causing Causation catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley and of villages in the Eder valley ; the Sorpe Dam sustained only minor damage .

The Johnstown Flood ( locally , the Great Flood of 1889 ) occurred Coming_to_be on May 31 , 1889 , after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam , located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River , upstream of the town of Johnstown , Pennsylvania .

Flooding caused Causation the Pongolapoort Dam to reach 87 % of its capacity ; when waters were released to maintain the structural integrity , additional flooding occurred Coming_to_be in Mozambique , forcing thousands to evacuate .

The Franklin Dam or Gordon-below-Franklin Dam project was a proposed dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania , Australia , that was never constructed Building .

The Franklin Dam or Gordon-below-Franklin Dam project was a proposed dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania , Australia , that was never constructed Building .