Workers hurriedly tried to shore up a rural Utah dam after a 60-foot (18-metre) crack opened and sent water pouring into a creek and endangering the 1,700 residents of a downstream town.
As of Wednesday, it’s estimated that Panguitch Lake holds approximately 20,000 acre feet of water, less than one-tenth the amount that was in Idaho's Teton Dam that failed in 1976, killing 11 people.