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The Emerald Mile
By Kevin Fedarko
2,922 5-star reviews! In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the Colorado River confronted a team of engineers at the Glen Canyon Dam with an unprecedented emergency that may have resulted in the most catastrophic dam failure in history. In the midst of this crisis, the decision to launch a small wooden dory named "The Emerald Mile" at the head of the Grand Canyon, just fifteen miles downstream from the dam, seemed not just odd, but downright suicidal…
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