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What Really Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?

Practical Engineering · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Civil engineering & construction

What it is

Practical Engineering summarizes the 2017 Oroville Dam spillway failure, explaining the engineering details behind the incident. It also discusses how operators and regulators failed to keep downstream residents safe.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Pointed to as a detailed engineering walkthrough of a major dam incident, and as a parallel to software failures.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “Practical engineering has a good detailed walkthrough of what happened at Oroville dam from an engineering perspective”

    Detailed engineering walkthrough of Oroville dam failure.

    trestacos, 2023-06 · Recommendation · in “What If California's Dams Fail?”

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Topics: oroville dam, spillway, civil engineering, infrastructure failure, erosion

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