Risk and Resilience at the Oroville Dam

Existing analyses of the February 2017 Oroville Dam Crisis identify maintenance failures and engineering shortcomings as the root cause of a nearly catastrophic failure of the tallest dam in the United States. However, the focus on technical shortcomings largely overlooks the role of adaptive decisi...

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Main Authors: Lucien X. Hollins, Daniel A. Eisenberg, Thomas P. Seager
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-11-01
Series:Infrastructures
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2412-3811/3/4/49