Whaley Bridge: How safe are Britain's dams?
All UK reservoirs with a capacity above 25,000 cubic metres must comply with theEvery dam must have a supervising civil engineer and an inspecting civil engineer to file annual safety reports to Defra, Mr Coackley said.The Canal and River Trust said the annual inspection of Toddbrook Reservoir in November was"absolutely fine"."Our engineers also inspect the reservoir twice-weekly and this is how we picked up the problem," said a spokeswoman.
The UK's worst-ever dam disaster was the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864, which claimed at least 240 lives.after a dam collapsed near Brumadinho in Brazil.Oroville in California in 2017"A spillway was damaged, then the auxiliary spillway came into operation and there was erosion on the auxiliary spillway which meant they had to evacuate people downstream," he said.
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