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The ASDSO Dam Incident Database provides basic information on dam safety incidents in the U.S.  The database is not considered comprehensive of all dam safety incidents, both historic and current, and reflects only the data that ASDSO has been able to collect. 

In 2010, ASDSO began to gather dam safety incident information (both failure and non-failure) from the state dam safety programs.  This database has some information from federal dam owning or regulating agencies but, again, this is not complete. Much of the identifying information on specific dams is obtained from the National Inventory of Dams. ASDSO does not provide assurance that all the information in the database is completely accurate. If you see an error or have additional information to provide for a specific incident, please contact Paige Spragens at [email protected]. If you would like to provide additional incident information to the database, please contact Paige. ASDSO has a spreadsheet (download at this link) that provides an explanation of each field and can be used as an entry form to submit incident information.