The Edenville and Sanford Dams Failures

The final report from an independent forensic team investigating the Edenville and Sanford Dams’ failure is available on the Engineering News-Record website. In summary, it states that failure “was caused by static liquefaction (flow) instability of saturated, loose sands in the downstream section of their embankments.“

Practical Enginnering has an interesting and didactic Youtube video explaining what happened at Edenville and Sanford Dams.