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Geotechnical News • June 2018
GEOHAZARDS
7th Canadian Geohazards
Conference –
Geohazards 7:
Engineering Resiliency in a
Changing Climate
/
Geohazards 7 is right around the
corner! Papers have been selected
and reviewed, and the conference is
shaping up to be outstanding! It will
be held June 3-6, 2018 at the Coast
Canmore Hotel & Conference Centre
in Canmore, Alberta.
The CGS’s Geohazards conferences
are the premiere forums in Canada
for the sharing and dissemination of
scientific and engineering knowledge
related to geohazard assessment and
risk management.
If you don’t already have tickets, it’s
not too late – but get on it!
Closing notes
Thank you for your letters! If you
have a paper or project related to
Geohazards that you think would be
interesting to GN readers, please send
me note at Richard.guthrie@stantec.
com.
Until next time,
Rick
1
Modified from the World Heritage Encyclopedia 2012, Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press, accessed May 10, 2018 at
list_of_dam_failures
and a Wikipedia article on Dam Failure, accessed May 10, 2018 at
.
2
Interpretations are not those of Geotechnical News. Some interpretations that were clearly speculative or judgmental in nature were removed from the
source. Additional information is easily found on most of the examples herein.
Dam/incident
Year
Location
Fatalities Details
2
Ajka alumina plant
accident
October 4,
2010
Hungary
10
Failure of concrete impound wall on
alumina plant tailings dam.
Kenmare Resource tail-
ings dam
October 8,
2010
Mozambique
0
Failure of tailings dam at titanium mine.
Fujinuma Dam
March 11,
2011
Japan
8
Failed after 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. 7
dead and 1 unknown.
Campos dos
Goytacazes Dam, Brazil
January 4,
2012
Rio de Janeiro
State, Brazil
Failed after a period of flooding. 4000
people displaced.
Ivanovo Dam
February 6,
2012
Biser, Bulgaria
8
Failed after a period of heavy snowmelt.
Eight people killed and several
communities flooded.
Köprü Dam
February 24,
2012
Adana Province,
Turkey
10
A gate in the diversion tunnel broke after
a period of heavy rain during the
reservoir’s first filing. The accident killed
ten workers.
Dakrong 3 Dam
October 07,
2012
Quảng Trị Province,
Vietnam
0
Poor design, Typhoon Gaemi flood surge.
Tokwe Mukorsi Dam February 04,
2014
Masvingo Province,
Zimbabwe
0
(296 ft) tall embankment dam. Residents
evacuated upstream.
Mount Polley tailings
dam failure
August 04,
2014
British Columbia,
Canada
0
Tailings dam collapse; reservoir was
overfilled beyond design parameters.
Germano mine tailings
dams
November 05,
2015
Mariana, Minas
Gerais, Brazil
24
Tailings dam collapse. One village
destroyed, 600 people evacuated, 19
missing. Sixty-million cubic meters of
iron waste sludge polluted Doce River,
and the sea near the river’s mouth.
Patel Dam
May 10, 2018 Solai, Kenya
38
Failed after several days of heavy rain.
Dozens of people remain missing.
223,000 people displaced.
