Resource
Interim Dam Failure Investigation Guideline
Resource Type
Guidelines, Technical Manuals, Reference Books
Reference Title
Interim Dam Failure Investigation Guideline
Organization/Agency
Association of State Dam Safety Officials
Year
2011
Date
09/13/2011
Abstract/Additional Information
This document was created by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) Dam Failure Investigation Committee (DFIC) (see the committee roster in Appendix A). The committee includes members with direct experience in most of the major dam failures of the past 10 years including Silver Lake Dam (Michigan), Big Bay Dam (Mississippi), Taum Sauk Dam (Missouri), Hadlock Pond Dam (New York), Lake Delhi Dam (Iowa) and Hope Mills Dam (North Carolina). The committee also gathered information on the KaLoko Dam failure
(Hawaii) and the levee failures in New Orleans. These failures caused the loss of seven lives and hundreds of millions of dollars in losses (exclusive of the New Orleans levee failures).
