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Keowee Courier
Walhalla, Pickens, Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina
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Article describes how concrete stopped a potential avalanche at Rocher de la Clusette in Switzerland twenty years ago, saving a valley and power source. Contrasts with ongoing sliding issues in Britain, including damage from Troedrhiwfuwch peak, a 1925 slide at Oaker hill, and recent slipping near Dorking.
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The lurch of the Rocher de la Clusette, in the Jura, near Neuchatel, Switzerland, some twenty years ago, was one of the rare cases where man has been able to avert a threatened avalanche. Engineers were so lavish with concrete that they managed to prop up the mountain and save the valley of the Areuse, and its electrical power-generating torrent, from blockage.
Britain has a sliding mountain-the Troedrhiwfuwch peak, near Bargoed, Glamorganshire, whose restlessness of late years has broken the Rhymney valley water mains, which supply more than 100,000 persons, twisted railway lines, cracked walls, houses and roads and opened great fissures. Alarm was caused and damage done by the slide in Oaker hill, just north of the Matlock, in May, 1925; and a hill above the Mole, near Dorking, was slipping recently.
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Rocher De La Clusette, In The Jura, Near Neuchatel, Switzerland; Troedrhiwfuwch Peak, Near Bargoed, Glamorganshire, Britain; Oaker Hill, Just North Of The Matlock; Hill Above The Mole, Near Dorking
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Some Twenty Years Ago; May, 1925; Recently
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Engineers used concrete to stop the lurch of Rocher de la Clusette, averting an avalanche that threatened the valley of the Areuse and its electrical power-generating torrent. In Britain, the Troedrhiwfuwch peak has caused damage including breaking water mains supplying over 100,000 persons, twisting railway lines, cracking walls, houses, roads, and opening fissures. A slide occurred at Oaker hill in May 1925, and a hill near Dorking was slipping recently.