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...Toccoa tragedy is a challenge to civil authorities, as well as to the religious faith of its surviving victims. It dramatizes the inadequacy of the nation's safety program for dams-federal, state and private. Congress passed a Dam Inspection Act in 1972, but it was not properly funded, nor has it been properly enforced-even after Idaho's Teton Dam collapsed last year, killing eleven and causing $400 million worth of damage. Part of the problem: the law authorized enough money for the Army's Corps of Engineers to make an inventory but not a detailed...
...California: East Park Dam on Little Stony Creek requires a larger spillway. Stony Gorge Dam, in the Orland Project near Chico, needs reinforcement...
...Idaho: Black Canyon Dam on the Payette River should have better seepage control and an auxiliary spillway. Island Park Dam on Henrys Fork River needs a rebuilt spillway...
...Montana: Gibson Dam on the Sun River requires new piers and reinforcement. Willow Creek Dam needs major repairs...
...Nevada: Lahontahn Dam on the Carson River has an inadequate spillway...