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Daily, leaks in the foundation have to be plugged with grout -- a mixture of cement and sand. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the Mosul Dam is fundamentally the wrong structure for the location, and called it the âmost dangerous dam in the world.â. Even with careful tending, the Mosul Dam is in danger.
As I crossed the Rio Grande, the view ahead yielded an enormous dam rising alongside the road. Cochiti Dam is one of the 10 largest earthen dams in the United States. It contains more than 65 million cubic feet of earth and rock, stretches more than five miles across, and rises about 250 feet above the Rio Grande.