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The paper by has been reviewed by the present writer with the benefit of unusually detailed acquaintance with the documented design, construction and performance, but no original involvement in the design and construction of the reservoir. This review also has the tempering benefit of over 20 years of hindsight. One aspect of the paper that emerges time and again is the apparently irresistible tendency to make qualitative statements of judgment which would, if used in court, have been supportive of the interests of the authors' clients, Standard Oil Co. and others. The following review will be basically restricted to reactions to those qualitative statements, but will, by implication, compliment the authors on their excellent presentation of factual descriptions and performance data, by not commenting on that aspect of their paper. ## Item 1 On p.551, the authors state unequivocally, "Early on the day of failure, portions of the reservoir lining collapsed into large voids formed by long term piping." This statement is no more than misleading speculation in that there were no "large voids" related to long term, "trickle" seepage actually found in the foundation except in Fault V, a

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Author

Thomas M. Leps

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0013-7952)

Published

1987

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)