“Disaster Strikes: Water Leak Destroys Major Niagara Hydroelectric Plant…Claims Many Lives

Disaster Strikes: Water Leak Destroys Major Niagara Hydroelectric Plant…Claims Many Lives On a seemingly ordinary summer afternoon in June 1956, the banks of the mighty Niagara River witnessed one of the most devastating industrial disasters in its history. The Schoellkopf Power Plant, once hailed as a marvel of engineering and one of the largest hydroelectric…