Heavy Ground

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"Gives an account of how the St. Francis Dam came to be built, its relationship to the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the reasons for its collapse, the terror and heartbreak brought by the flood, the efforts to restore the Santa Clara Valley, the political factors influencing investigations of the failure, and the effect of the disaster on dam safety regulation."--book jacket.