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.{{Cite news |date=April 26, 2023 |title=The Great Molasses Flood of 1919: A Deadly Disaster in Boston |url=https://www.thecollector.com/the-great-molasses-flood/ |access-date=2024-06-18 |work=The Collector}}
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.
List
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of non-water floods |
| scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" data-sort-type="date" | Date ! scope="col" | Composition of flood ! scope="col" | Location |
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| London Beer Flood
| 17 October 1814 | Beer | London, England |
| Dublin whiskey fire
| 18 June 1875 | Whiskey | Dublin, Ireland |
| Great Molasses Flood
| 15 January 1919 | Molasses | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Rockwood & Company shipping department fire
| 12 May 1919 | Molten chocolate and butter | New York City, U.S. |
| Aberfan disaster
| 21 October 1966 | Mine spoil and water | Aberfan, Wales, UK |
| Church Rock uranium mill spill
| 16 July 1979 | Uranium tailings | Church Rock, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Wisconsin butter flood
| 3 May 1991 | Butter, cheese, and processed meat | Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill
| 22 December 2008 | Coal byproducts mixed with water | Kingston, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Ajka alumina plant accident
| 4 October 2010 | Bauxite residue mixed with water (caustic sludge, red in color) | Ajka, Hungary |
| Mount Polley Mine
| 4 August 2014 | Mine tailings - nickel, arsenic, copper, lead and compounds thereof | near Likely, British Columbia |
| Mariana dam disaster
| 5 November 2015 | Tailings mixed with water | Mariana, Brazil |
| Pepsi fruit juice flood
| 25 April 2017 | Various juices | Lebedyan, Russia |
| Levira Distiller wine flood
| 10 September 2023 | Red wine | São Lourenço do Bairro, Portugal |