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Causes of Failure of Earthern Dam
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written 6.2 years ago by gravatar for teamques10 teamques10 ★ 70k

Earthern dams may fail like other engineering structures, due to improper designs faulty construction & lack of maintenance etc.

The various causes leading to failure of earth dam are:

  1. Hydraulic failures
  2. Seepage failures
  3. Structural failures

1. Hydraulic failures:

  • About 40% of earth dam failures have been attributed to these causes. …

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