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

2. 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

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

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

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

6.  Voland Gerard. Engineering by Design. 2nd Edition. New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.  http://www.eng.uab.edu/cee/faculty/ndelatt e/case_studies_project/Teton%20Dam.htm Accessed 16 February 2009. http://www.eng.uab.edu/cee/faculty/ndelatt e/case_studies_project/Teton%20Dam.htm