Documents suggest that in more than 80 U.S. locations, the failure of an aging dam could flood a major toxic waste site.
An investigative report and interactive feature published in Undark BY JAMES DINNEEN AND ALEXANDER KENNEDY
To identify dams that might pose the most serious risk to toxic waste sites, Undark searched for dams in the national database that are both high-hazard and older than 50 years, the age after which many dams require renovations. To narrow our search, we selected dams that sit 6 or fewer miles away from and appear in satellite images to be upstream of an EPA-listed toxic waste site. Experts say that many dams would flood much farther than 6 miles.
Read more here: https://undark.org/2021/06/01/below-dozens-of-aging-dams-a-potential-toxic-calamity/