Taum Sauk Pumped Storage Project (No. P-2277)
Dam Breach Incident

Incident Description

FERC Staff Report, April 28, 2006
Note: All files below are PDFs.

• Executive Summary
• Section 1 Project Description
• Section 2 Project History
• Section 3 Historical Performance of Upper Reservoir
• Section 4 Post Breach Survey and Estimates of Overtopping
• Section 5 Instrumentation and Controls
• Section 6 Taum Sauk Upper Reservoir Breach Time Line
• Section 7 Meteorology
• Section 8 Hydrology and Hydraulics
• Section 9 Stability Analysis
• Section 10 Emergency Response
• Section 11 Environmental Effects Associated with the Breach of the Upper Reservoir at the Taum Sauk Project



• Bibliography



• Appendix A
• Appendix B - Section 4 - Reservoir Levels, Pumping Intervals Analysis Charts
• Appendix C - Section 7 - Weather Data
• Appendix D - Section 8 - Embankment Stability (2.7 MB)
• Appendix E - Section 10 - List of Soils in the Impact Zone of Upper Reservoir Breach
  
  
• Full Report (15.7 MB)