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Huge Dams Proposed for Pebble Mine Site
Earth dams in an earthquake zone?

The Pebble mine, if developed in the headwaters of Alaska's Bristol Bay region, may require enormous earthen dams as high as Hoover and Grand Coulee dams.

But unlike Hoover and Grand Coulee, which are made of concrete,the ones being considered for the Pebble mine site would be made of earth and would be required to hold back the toxins, slurry, and mine tailings from the gold-excavation process.

One dam would be 740 high and more than 4 miles long; another would be 700 feet high and 3 miles long.


 
 

The earthen dams would be designed to withstand a earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8. Alaska was struck in 1964 by a quake more than 10 times stronger than that.

The dams would have to be maintained in perpetuity, in the upper reaches of one of the state's most valuable salmon watershed and subsistence areas. Just buillding the dams in the pristine habitat could harm fishing and hunting in areas beyond the mine's sprawling footprint.


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