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Fig. 3.2 – Massive dam break overtopping, during extremely high floods in the Czech<br />

Republic.<br />

(A) (B)<br />

Fig. 3.3 – (A) Paraguaçu embankment dam failure by overtopping, after severe flooding in<br />

Brazil. (B) Downstream erosion damages at an embankment road access, in January, 2007.<br />

At Figures 3.4 and 3.5 are presented the failures of small dams Nix Lake and Bear Foot Lake,<br />

in Texas, USA, by overtopping, as presented by Purkeypile and Samuelson, at the ASDSO<br />

Annual Conference, in Sept/ 2007 [1].<br />

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