By: Rob Wong Peter L’Heureux Skylur Jameson Marc Driscoll

Idaho near Snake River Plain June 5, 1976 Flood control, Power Generation, Irrigation Unstable Area Overconfidence Eleven Dead $400,000,000 in damages Rexburg, Wilford, Sugar City, Salem, Hibbard

 Inadequate Monitoring Techniques  Lack of Professionalism  Overlooked Inspections  Inoperable Safety Features  Maintenance & Operations  Main outlet inoperable  Communication Errors  Workers to Designers

 Dam Supervision  Failed Cost-benefit analysis  Leak Detection  Lack of Local Support  Sited in unstable area  Communication Absence

 Rebuilding took years  Dam never rebuilt  President Ford requests $200 million  Claims Program  Ended January 1987  7,563 total = $322 million

 Voland Gerard. Engineering by Design. 2nd Edition. New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.,  e/case_studies_project/Teton%20Dam.htm Accessed 16 February e/case_studies_project/Teton%20Dam.htm