Surface / Tip Failure disasters

Spoil-tip or surface structure failure, e.g. Aberfan-type events — distinct from underground collapse.

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1 disaster.

• Keppel Cove dam burst, 1927
  night of 28–29 October 1927 · Flooding / Inundation · Cumbria
  After a night of exceptional rainfall and gale-force winds, the earth dam supplying Greenside Mine's hydro-electric power at Keppel Cove was overtopped and burst, sending a flood down into Glenridding village that wrecked shops, bridges and a hotel — four hotel staff were rescued from a flooding basement.