Dam Failures

Association of State Dam Safety Officials (2016) Top Issues Facing the Dam Community. Retrieved November 20th, 2016 from: http://www.damsafety.org/news/?p=c0fdade4-ab98-4679-be22-e3d7f14e124f

Dam failure is becoming common and deadly, one such failure killed 7 people in Hawaii, and there have been over 100 reported dam failures between 2005 and 2009, and in a recent year there was over 50 million in repair costs for dams in 23 states. There are about 4,400 unsafe dams in the US, and there is at least one in every state, a problem that needs to be addressed.

While most dams are upheld by responsible people, 4,400 of them are not, and it is costing people their lives. There is a serious demand for more regulations and standards that need to be met by dams, and for more people to address the main five factors that result in dam failure.

2 thoughts on “Dam Failures

  1. This opened my eyes as I never saw or thought about dam failure as being an issue. It is crazy how it poses as a risk for death and injury all over the country. What are the current guidelines and regulations for the construction of dams? Is the problem that there aren’t strict enough regulations put in place? Or rather that no one is following them and they are not being enforced?

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