Date: 2 July 2019Loss of Life: 19 Failure of the Tiware dam in Ratnagiri district of Maharastra state last week on the 2nd July 2019 after heavy rain. While it is not clear, it appears as though this may have been an internal erosion failure of a homogeneous earth dam although reports vary. The dam… Read More Tiware dam failure
24th July 2018 Sobering news for anyone working in the dams industry with the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam collapse: ‘hundreds missing’ after villages flooded. Five billion cubic metres of water swept through the surrounding countryside after the accident at the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam, which was still under construction. The company building the dam said… Read More Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Saddle Dam D Breach
7 February 2017 In Feburary 2017, high spillway flows lead to the failure of the service spillway at Oroville Dam. A full write-up can be found in the Independent Forensic Report which concluded that any critical structures of this age (~50yrs) should now be subject to more than just periodic physical inspection but more comprehensive… Read More Oroville Spillway Failure
570 C.E. One of the oldest chronicled dams and breaches brought on by overtopping. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marib_Dam
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