Documentary Johnstown Flood
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It was not for another nine years that engineers from many parts of the country came to the site of the dam to study what had gone wrong. Fulton's findings appear to have been correct. But there were four other changes in the dam, which Rough and his men had made, which Fulton had not noticed. And these were is crucial to what finally happened as the faults Fulton cited to begin with in order to provide room for a road across the breast, the height of the dam had been lowered from one different feet. This would give enough with for two carriages crossing the dam to pass each other comfortably. But it also meant that the capacity of the spillway had been reduced. For now, the bottom of the spillway was not 10 or 11 feet lower than the crest of the dam, but perhaps only seven or eight feet. This was a very significant change, since it meant that a rising lake would start to go over the top of the dam that much sooner