ITALY’S WHITE COAL
"Italy’s ‘white coal’—th© electric power produced by the harnessing of her mountain torrents—has unfortunately proved to be a potential danger like th© coal mine. In th© hills northeast of Bergamo, a great dam was 'built last year; it was a furlong wide and ninety feet high, and formed a new lake called Bleno, which supplied power to several electricity stations below. : "In Decmber last the'lake, swelled byheavy rain and melting snow, burst through the dam, and the huge mass of water, rushing down the two narrow valleys of Scalv© and Camonica, swept all before it. Villages and numerous cotton mills and ’ironworks which depondd on the hydro electric works were destroyed and it is known over five hund red people were drowned. As such accidents rarely happen nowadays; it would seem that the snowfall and rainfall which th© dam had to withstand must have been under-estimated;” says the Spectator.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8544, 17 March 1924, Page 4\\u000d\u000a4
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