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Buffalo Creek Flood

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Buffalo Creek Flood

The Buffalo Creek Flood was a disaster that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam #3, located on a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia, USA, burst, four days after having been declared 'satisfactory' by a federal mine inspector.

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