The morning of June 5, 1976, bulldozer operators at the newly minted Teton Dam site on the border of Madison and Fremont counties in eastern Idaho worked feverishly to shore up seeping leaks in the giant rock and earthen berm that were discovered two days earlier. Behind the ill-fated dam, some 230,000 acre-feet of stored irrigation water destined for more than 100,000 acres of farmland pushed against the 10 million cubic yards of silt, soil, sand, gravel and rockfill used to build the structure, gathering energy with every drop the Teton River pushed into the new reservoir.
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