1.   Also, huge earthen dams can be built, though at heavy cost and environmental disruption.

2.   Although he delivered his bomb perfectly and it detonated as planned, his target was an earthen dam that absorbed much of its impact.

3.   And when the sheep and dogs drank the muddy water behind the earthen dam, we also quenched our thirst from cupped hands.

4.   City officials expressed fears that it could trigger too much rain, threatening the already weakened Twin Buttes earthen dam.

5.   Debris has built up in an earthen dam in a canyon above Ventura and city officials say it could break.

6.   Later in the day a second earthen dam was placed at the mouth of the drainage ditch, Camp said.

7.   Released later that night, they were chased through the countryside by Klansmen, executed at point-blank range and buried in an earthen dam.

8.   Several smaller earthen dams were also reported topped by flood waters.

9.   The lime-green, checkered tile sparkled like the brown water at an earthen dam in Bodaway near one of our sheep camps.

10.   The joke was that we had been driving for miles and miles, trying to catch a glimmer of water, but the earthen dam stood in our way.