Structural Engineering
Water Resources Engineering
Vaiont Dam Disaster
Photos courtesy of Eddie Bromhead, Geotechnical Engineer, Kingston University

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Go several kilometres upstream, and look downstream, and this is what you get: the landslide. In the foreground there is the remains of the reservoir. Still of the order of 200m deep.

A view from the landslide towards Casso, showing how Casso is threatened by rock slides from the scar high up above the village in the mountainside.
    



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