Megastructures - Season 3 (2005)

Worlds Largest dam at time of completion.

Mammoth machines. Trash piled twenty stories high. Man and technology in a battle against a tidal wave of waste. Uncover the gargantuan world of garbage at America's largest active Mega Dump: Puente Hills, California. Most landfills take in 2,000 tons of trash a day -- this one processes 2,000 tons an hour. How does it do it? With mega machines and mega ingenuity. Take a spin in the 120,000-pound Bomag Compactor, with its 55-inch garbage-crushing steel wheels. Power up with methane gas... Puente Hills powers over 100,000 homes and a fleet of vehicles with their ...

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A study of the Panama Canal, which ranks as one of the world's greatest engineering feats. Included: the technology and manpower required to build the waterway, which links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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