February 24, 2018 • 21 mins
On the 19th of July, 1985 in Tesero, Northern Italy, a tailings dam gave way and killed 268 people. With the most common tailings dam design in the world, what went wrong and how widespread are the risks?
With John Chidgey.
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Episode Gold Producer: 'r'.
Episode Silver Producers: Chris Stone, Eivind Hjertnes and Carsten Hansen.
With John Chidgey.
Links of potential interest:
- Stava tailings dam failure
- Water Management Considerations for Conventional Storage
- Conventional Impoundment Storage - The current techniques
- The Stava Mudflow of 19 July 1985 PDF
- Liquefaction
- The Val di Stava Dam Collapse
- Mine Tailings Safety Stava Report PDF
- Val di Stava Dam Collapse
- Tailings Dam
- The Stava Tailings Dam Failure
- Fondazione Stava 1985 [Italian]
Support Causality on Patreon
Episode Gold Producer: 'r'.
Episode Silver Producers: Chris Stone, Eivind Hjertnes and Carsten Hansen.
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