As Flood Season Settles In, Experts Shed Light on Dam Safety Problems | 2020-07-22 | Engineering News-Record

As Flood Season Settles In, Experts Shed Light on Dam Safety Problems | 2020-07-22 | Engineering News-Record: U.S. dam safety frameworks have helped to prevent major calamities, but the May collapse of the 95-year-old Edenville Dam in Michigan illustrates that key failure risks remain—often involving many causes, according to a study of dam safety risk assessments by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  “It’s really unusual that a big system fails because of one thing,” says Greg Baecher, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, and co-author of the Oak Ridge report conducted for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and . . .