You've advised the gold-mining company to remove the embankment dam. Luckily, there is enough money in the budget to clean up this toxic site with the latest technology: cyanide-munching bugs.

"If that dam collapses, four million tons of poisonous sludge will gush down the mountainside and destroy our village completely. The gold mine isn't even productive anymore. Please remove the ...

In preparing the foundations, about 8,000 cubic yards were excavated, and an earth embankment was laid against the upstream face of the dam at a slope of 3 : 1, reaching within 27 feet of the ...

Based on their findings, the researchers noted there are practical solutions that could have prevented collapse of the embankment slope investigated in this study. Their recommendations include using ...

The study examines the deadly combination of extreme rainfall from Storm Daniel, a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone, and the structural failure of two embankment dams in Wadi Derna. The ...

The Crown Dam embankment last saw works over forty years ago. However, Wordsworth himself walked the crown dam after the issue was raised during an outreach with President Irfaan Ali and Minister of ...