Sentences with phrase «of dam failures»

year in the U.S. alone from coal dust Even hydroelectric has a worse record than nuclear... A string of dam failures in China once killed 230,000 people.

49 Number of dam failures in the United States between 2000 and 2007.

The highest probability of dam failure is from the surrounding slopes which is what we see at Oroville.

I also conducted a study of the statistical probability of dam failure to accompany my valuation estimate.

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On August 4, 2014, the catastrophic failure of a mining company's dam in British Columbia, Canada, released over 2.5 billion gallons of contaminated water...

VICTORIA - Last week Mines Minister Bill Bennett seized on a single finding of the expert panel report on the failure of the Mount Polley Tailings Dam to explain away the B.C. Liberal government's responsibility for the significant damage to the...

«We can only hope the Mount Polley report gets to the bottom of how much Liberal cuts to inspections and staffing in this industry contributed to the tailings dam failure,» said spokesperson for interior economic development Katrine Conroy.

«Knight Piesold has confirmed that, subject to the lowering of the water levels in the Lanti containment ponds, the risk of immediate failure of the dams is low,» Iluka said.

Disease Smallpox Measles Malaria Tuberculosis AIDS pandemic Seasonal influenza Cyclones (including hurricanes) 1970 Bhola cyclone 1839 Indian cyclone 1737 Calcutta cyclone Super Typhoon Nina — contributed to Banqiao Dam failure Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 Cyclone Nargis 1991 Bangladesh cyclone 1882 Bombay cyclone 1922 Swatow Typhoon 1864 Calcutta Cyclone Earthquakes 1556 Shaanxi earthquake 1976 Tangshan earthquake 526 Antioch earthquake 1920 Haiyuan earthquake 2004 Indonesian earthquake 1138 Aleppo earthquake 2010 Haiti earthquake 856 Damghan earthquake 893 Ardabil earthquake 1923 Great Kanto earthquake 1908 Messina earthquake 1948 Ashgabat earthquake 1290 Chihli earthquake 1755 Lisbon earthquake 1667 Shamakhi earthquake 2005 Kashmir earthquake 1727 Tabriz earthquake 1970 Ancash earthquake 1932 Changma earthquake 2008 Sichuan earthquake 1268 Cilicia earthquake 1693 Sicily earthquake 1935 Balochistan earthquake 1783 Calabrian earthquakes 1990 Manjil - Rudbar earthquake 1999 İzmit earthquake 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake 1797 Riobamba earthquake 1927 Gulang earthquake 1939 Erzincan earthquake 1202 Syria earthquake 1939 Chillán earthquake 1949 Khait earthquake 2003 Bam earthquake 1988 Spitak earthquake 1293 Kamakura earthquake 1976 Guatemala earthquake 1896 Meiji - Sanriku earthquake 1812 Caracas earthquake 1905 Kangra earthquake 2001 Gujarat earthquake 1970 Tonghai earthquake 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami 1960 Agadir earthquake 1978 Tabas earthquake 1962 Bou'in - Zahra earthquake 1907 Qaratog earthquake 1968 Dasht - e Bayaz and Ferdows earthquake 1934 Bihar earthquake 1985 Mexico City earthquake 1509 Istanbul earthquake 1703 Apennine earthquakes 1703 Genroku earthquake 1854 Ansei - Nankai earthquake 1944 San Juan earthquake

Oyeleye warned that failure of residents to heed the warnings could result to loss of lives and properties by the time the Oyan Dam of Ogun - Osun River Basin Development Authority (OORBDA) is released.

Oyeleye said that failure of residents to heed the warnings could result to loss of lives and properties by the time the Oyan Dam of Ogun - Osun River Basin Development Authority is released.

Researchers found moderate sedation was primarily used to calm anxiety in more than half of the patients (54 percent), followed by fear of needles (15 percent), local anesthesia failures (15 percent) and severe gag reflex and claustrophobia from the rubber dam (both 8 percent).

The World Bank has been widely criticised for its failure to assess the dam's environmental impact or to address the issue of resettling the people it will displace.

Only sudden failure of the glacial dam could have released the 2,000 - foot - deep lake.

Record flooding was observed in South Carolina and parts of North Carolina with numerous dam failures and road closures.

«Unresolved Issues and Recommendations for Resolution Concerning the Church Rock, New Mexico Uranium Tailings Dam Failure of July 16, 1979» - C. Shuey and L. Taylor, SRIC, August 1982.

Told in verse, Richards» story revolves around several people whose lives touch before and after the failure of an earthen dam above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889.

The main task of mechanical, civil and aerospace engineers is stress analysis as it helps in the protection of dams, tunnels, bridges, rocket bodies and other mechanical bodies to investigate the cause of structural failures.

Also, the failure of a dam to eat may result in vitamin and mineral deficiencies that could even jeopardize the well - being and life of the puppies.

Perhaps the most important lesson from this earthquake is that critical facilities such as large chemical plants and dams require safeguards that will ensure public safety in the case of earthquake - triggered failures.

The repeat spectacle of wasteful unsustainable government policy of damming and diverting the Nile and thus causing the failure of agriculture and the overthrow of the Pharaoh is older than the pyramids... [Read the rest.]

While the Missoula floods are normally presented as a failure of an ice dam on the Clark River, the nature of ice dams on rivers results in Lake Missoula having a significant sub-glacial character.

The USBR had computer dam failure models in the 70's; these should be invaluable in evaluating the failure of either emergency spillway or the main; as they considered the strength of the underlying material.

Fearing further damage and failure of Oroville's main spillway, authorities instead allowed Lake Oroville to rise to overflow Oroville Dam's emergency spillway (Nazarian A. 2017).

How can we grapple with China's 62 - 64 domino dam catastrophe from the 1975 failures of Banqiao and Shimantan Dams, and comprehend how policy decisions killed 170,000 to 230,000 people?

Most dam failures are not of the dam but of the adjacent slopes or in some cases the gate valves.

California's Oroville Dam experienced failures of both its primary and emergency spillways.

I can only suggest that the residents at risk also «lawyer up» and demand that dam levels be kept low enough so that the dam can contain the inflow for sufficient enough time to allow evacuation of any and all areas likely to be at risk due to catastrophic failure.

Yet some 171,000 to 230,000 people died from the 1975 catastrophic failure of China's Banqiao Dam and Shimantan Dams, when deluged by Super Typhoon Nina being blocked by a cold front.

Geophysicist Steven Ward modeled floods from partial breaches to full failure of Oroville's Dam.

The Oroville Dam Spillway Failure thread contains a wealth of technical information which will surely prove invaluable for my thesis.

An overflow caused catastrophic breach and failure of the USA's highest dam is thus no empty threat.

How would downstream cities of Oroville, Biggs, Gridley, Live Oak on down to Yuba City handle even a partial failure of Oroville Dam's emergency overflow as modeled by Steven Ward?

Design outflow was calculated from the overtopping and expected failure of the upstream Butt Valley Dam.

Dams are life - line facilities, as is the power grid, and a dam failure can cause more loss of life and property damage than an atom bomb in some cases (Fukushima losses were mostly from water damage due to sea level rise not radiation per se).

Overtopping, failure and collapse, from a severe storm and neglect, caused the May 31, 1889 failure of South Fork Dam near Johnstown, Pa., killing 2,209 people — the largest US disaster until 9/11 (Ward 2011).

Flash floods occur in small and steep watersheds and waterways and can be caused by short - duration intense precipitation, dam or levee failure, or collapse of debris and ice jams.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FECR) forensic audit of the Oroville Dam Spillway crisis project found that failures were due to inadequate California Department of Water Resources (DWR) maintenance, repair of cracks, thin concrete slabs, poor drainage, and use of weathered rock.

• Nearly three dozen US nuclear power plants are inadequately protected against major flooding from an upstream dam failure, flooding that could easily lead to an accident on the scale of the 2011 Fukushima Disaster.

According to a 2011 report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that was made public in 2012, there are nearly three dozen nuclear reactors at risk of being flooded due to dam failure.

to be used for drinking water Less evaporation from the storage reservoir Little loss of land No damage due to dam failure Pollutants such as mosquitoes and snails can not exist in the reservoirs Siltation does not create any problems Less vulnerable / below the ground surface in a shallow soil toward the impervious crystalline sub soil.

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Some of the major human activities responsible for the destruction of wetlands in India include hydrologic alteration, agricultural activities, pollution, legal - policy failures, direct deforestation in wetlands, inundation by dammed reservoirs, degradation of water quality, global climate change effects, ground - water depletion and introduced species — extinction of native biota.

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Nearly three dozen nuclear power plants are inadequately protected against major flooding guaranteed to occur after an upstream dam failure — flooding that could easily lead to an accident or meltdown on the scale of the 2011 nuclear power disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

You know things are getting bad when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (they of the infamous New Orleans levee design) start speaking up about the threat to human life posed by a dam - with statements that read: «The Mosul dam is judged to have an unacceptable annual failure probability,» and «If a small problem [at] Mosul Dam occurs, failure is likely.&raqdam - with statements that read: «The Mosul dam is judged to have an unacceptable annual failure probability,» and «If a small problem [at] Mosul Dam occurs, failure is likely.&raqdam is judged to have an unacceptable annual failure probability,» and «If a small problem [at] Mosul Dam occurs, failure is likely.&raqDam occurs, failure is likely.»

The rating applies to sites at which a dam failure would most likely cause loss of human life, but does not assess of the likelihood of such an event.