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Lake Peigneur
- beerandt 5y agoAlways a favorite engineering disaster to read about. >The resultant sinkhole swallowed the drilling platform, eleven barges holding supplies for the drilling operation, a tugboat, many trees, and 65 acres of the surrounding terrain. >...the flow of the Delcambre Canal ...reversed, causing salt water from the Gulf of Mexico to flow into what was now a dry lakebed. This backflow created for a few days the tallest waterfall ever in the state of Louisiana, at 164 ft (50 m), as the lake refilled...