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What Really Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?
Practical Engineering
Practical Engineering summarizes the 2017 Oroville Dam spillway failure, explaining the engineering details behind the incident. It also discusses how operators and regulators failed to keep downstream residents safe.
Pointed to as a detailed engineering walkthrough of a major dam incident, and as a parallel to software failures.
3 Hacker News mentions · 2022–2026