name of top 10 ARTicle homes . Losses included heavy construction equipment , airplanes , farm machines , irrigation ditches and canals , and thousands of acres of crops . Some 13,000 cattle were drowned .
Permeable soil and cracked foundations were blamed for the dam ’ s collapse , which allowed more than two million cubic feet of water per second to careen into the Teton River canyon , emptying the reservoir within hours .
Estimated costs of this disaster are placed at close to $ 1 billion . No plans have been made for rebuilding the Teton Dam .
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