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This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the damn to a coal slurry impoundment owned by the Pittson Coal Company broke, unleashing approximately 132,000,000 US gallons of black waster water down into the hollows of Buffalo Creek, killing 125 people.
This feature is made from selections from Mimi Pickering's Appalshop film The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man, with music written by Doug Yarrow and Ruth Yarrow and performed by Jack Wright.
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This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the damn to a coal slurry impoundment owned by the Pittson Coal Company broke, unleashing approximately 132,000,000 US gallons of black waster water down into the hollows of Buffalo Creek, killing 125 people.
This feature is made from selections from Mimi Pickering's Appalshop film The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man, with music written by Doug Yarrow and Ruth Yarrow and performed by Jack Wright.
