Dam Failure Case Study: Meadow Pond Dam (New Hampshire, 1996)

Lynda Sinclair died on March 13, 1996, at the age of 48. She drowned trying to escape the flood torrent caused by the failure of Meadow Pond Dam in her town of Alton, New Hampshire. However, the series of circumstances that led to her death started with the human failures of her upstream neighbor and those he hired to build the dam.