List of non-water floods

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Most non-water floods (excluding mudflows, oil spills, or volcanic lahars) involve storage facilities suddenly releasing liquids, or industrial retaining reservoirs releasing toxic waste. Storage facility incidents usually cover a small area but can be catastrophic in cities. For example, a molasses tank failure in 1919 led to the Great Molasses Flood that killed 21 people in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.^[1]

Industrial retaining reservoirs are often used to store toxic waste, and when they fail they can flood a large area, causing physical and environmental damage. The 2010 failure of a reservoir at the Ajka alumina plant in Hungary flooded a small town and killed several, while the cleanup from the 2008 Kingston Fossil Plant spill in Tennessee, U.S. took several years and killed at least 40 workers involved.

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List of non-water floods
Name	Date	Composition of flood	Location
London Beer Flood	October 1814	Beer	London, England
Dublin whiskey fire	June 1875	Whiskey	Dublin, Ireland
Great Molasses Flood	January 1919	Molasses	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Rockwood & Company shipping department fire	May 1919	Molten chocolate and butter	New York City, U.S.
Church Rock uranium mill spill	July 1979	Uranium tailings	Church Rock, New Mexico, U.S.
Wisconsin butter flood	May 1991	Butter, cheese, and processed meat	Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill	December 2008	Coal byproducts mixed with water	Kingston, Tennessee, U.S.
Ajka alumina plant accident	October 2010	Bauxite residue mixed with water (caustic sludge, red in color)	Ajka, Hungary
Mariana dam disaster	November 2015	Tailings mixed with water	Mariana, Brazil
Pepsi fruit juice flood	April 2017	Various juices	Lebedyan, Russia
Levira Distiller wine flood	September 2023	Red wine	São Lourenço do Bairro, Portugal

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^ "The Great Molasses Flood of 1919: A Deadly Disaster in Boston". The Collector. 26 April 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2024.

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