13 Year Old Massive Dam Fails In Seconds: The Big Bay Dam Disaster

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   https://damfailures.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Big-Bay-Failure-Reexamination-Ferguson-et-al-v2-1-2014.pdf

   Big-Bay-Failure-Reexamination-Ferguson-et-al-v2-1-2014

   https://damfailures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/
   IR_Big-Bay.pdf

   https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/326242453.pdf

   https://ce544.groups.et.byu.net/syllabus/case-study/2017/summary/group%205%20-%20summary.pdf

   https://damfailures.org/sites/default/files/wp-pdf/IR_Big-Bay.pdf

   https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Froehlich-3/publication/264273758_Breach_of_Duty_Not_Evaluating_the_Uncertainty_of_Dam-Breach_Flood_Predictions/links/560d0dc008ae20335a9601a1/Breach-of-Duty-Not-Evaluating-the-Uncertainty-of-Dam-Breach-Flood-Predictions.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ

   https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven-Yochum-2/publication/245297560_Case_Study_of_the_Big_Bay_Dam_Failure_Accuracy_and_Comparison_of_Breach_Predictions/links/54875bfa0cf2ef34478ec853/Case-Study-of-the-Big-Bay-Dam-Failure-Accuracy-and-Comparison-of-Breach-Predictions.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ

   https://damfailures.org/case-study/big-bay-lake-dam-mississippi-2004

2. Acre-feet? What kind of unholy way of measuring volume is this…
   Can anyone actually comprehend how much volume that is? Is it a swimming pool?

3. 6:54

   Let's take a moment to acknowledge just how durable those power lines are!

   Did Chuck Norris make them?

4. i assume the designers were friends of the guvner

5. I may not have understood the conclusions here, but what I heard did not sound like root cause analysis. So, the dam was simply not properly designed? 🤔

6. Somebody should make a google earth file of every known dam break.

7. You could argue that there was cost cutting since the dam was built kind of sketch and im sure it was cheaper to dig a couple feet below the base clay than dig multiple solid beams or something like that down several dozen feet or atleast changed the design of the dam to that similar to the current design

8. Did anyone check for ground squirrels living in the dam?

9. Luckily, the maintenance guy and the engineer witnessed the warning signs and sounded the alarm (and no white-collar "because I said so!"-dork intervened).

   Otherwise, this would have ended gnarly…

10. 5:18 “It’s not bad” – much 😬

11. I guess my question would be for a structure like this why reinforced concrete wasn't used. You look at other similar dams used especially in hydro-electric power generation it's often reinforced concrete but no, they decided to use soil.

12. 0:23 “acre-feet” is a unit of measurement that can burn in hell

13. "Oh. Dammit."

14. The immediacy of water showing on top was an instant clock count down. I'm sure behind closed doors the discussion was held about that issue. The evacuation was executed solidly, amd that should have been solid, as they should have known that this was coming. The minimal amount in cost, considering this was the 90s, should have saud volumes

15. 0:23 “Acre-feet”? FFS America.

16. The Teton Dam failure in Idaho was also a classic dam failure.

17. There’s some daming evidence here…

18. Oh! Mississippi, makes sense.

19. Living downstream from dams or levees in an area guaranteed to flood should one or more fail is silly so I don't.
    When you buy property don't stop at checking flood zone maps.

20. DAMN!

21. anyone living under a dam is dumb

22. Acre-feet of water is a term I've never heard. You don't even use the Imperial in the UK anymore, why would you put it in those terms?

23. The engineers who approved the design & building of this…mushy turd of a damn were complete charlatans, with all the cerebral fortitude of generic cocktail sausages…

24. Oh yeah, sure, just put a giant pile of loose dirt in front of a thousand tons of water with zero plants to root the dirt down and a twigs worth of concrete to hold the dam in place. Fucking morons design our entire society. At least they noticed it quickly and got everyone evacuated, that's lovely

25. well, basically this is a case of people pissing off mother nature by trying to reroute a creek so that humans could have a lake for their recreational purposes. that water wasn't meant to be dammed. I wonder if they even did an environmental study before they built the lake.

    when will humans learn that you can't piss off mother nature?

26. Haha I'm so sorry … The amount of times you said 'seepage'…😅

27. I’ve been to the new lake they made. I’m from MS originally and we studied this in our state history class. The evacuation happening in time is because we’re so use to the Mississippi River flooding so we don’t play when it comes to flooding in my experience.

    Also it’s Mississippi. In 2004, average house was worth less than 92,000. So that million settlement was pretty good in actuality

28. Maybe they should have started with a small bay instead of a big one.

29. Bentonite can form an effective water seal when it is prevented from migrating itself by something not too porous.
    Commonly used in conjunction with fabric to seal ponds, canals etc.
    However, it forms a goo, when aggitated in water, with a viscosity similar to wallpaper paste.

30. Weird seeing a video around your hometown. Lol

31. Failed in 13 secs? I would argue without even watching the video, that it took 13 years to fail…..

32. (sum)

33. Creators who cold read unfamiliar content slowly and very mildly insult viewers kinda.
    Not like Plainly Difficult. With a name like that you could * literally anything.

34. Are there any damn questions? Yeah, where can I get some damn bait! Who knows what movie THIS is from?

35. Better to lose your possessions than your life.

    Good on the engineer for calling evac and it went through in time.

36. For non-American viewers, Mississippi is the 2nd dumbest state in America.

37. Please never change… your videos are perfect….as long as someone says "balls"

38. Damn.

39. Those dam engineers created a dam tragedy. Dammit!

40. 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 the LION was here! 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁

41. The architect wasn’t known for dam design? Well there’s the problem. 😅

42. People ran to warn others down river ❤

43. Deer in trees

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