Ep 72 Mount Polley Tailings Pond Breach

Engineering News – Moving Objects with Ultrasound Waves (3:45)

This week’s engineering failure is the Mount Polley Tailings Pond Breach (6:05). After years of ad hoc embankment expansion (9:30), the tailing pond breached on August 4, 2014. Following an independent investigation panel review (17:10) geoscientists and engineers were found liable for the failure (28:35).

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