Edenville Dam was constructed just upstream  of the confluence with the Tobacco River.

伊登维尔大坝建在烟草河交汇处的上游。

Although it seems like an outlier, the story of  Edenville and Sanford Dams is not an unusual one.

尽管看起来像是一个异常值，但伊登维尔和桑福德大坝的故事并不罕见。

Sanford Dam  downstream was a similar structure as Edenville, but not nearly as long.

桑福德大坝下游的结构与伊登维尔类似，但长度没有那么长。

Edenville and Sanford Dams were two of four  dams owned by Boyce Hydro Power along the Tittabawassee River in Michigan.

伊登维尔水坝和桑福德水坝是博伊斯水电公司在密歇根州蒂塔巴瓦西河沿岸拥有的四座水坝中的两座。

Edenville Dam was built in the 1920s before most  of our current understanding of geotechnical engineering and modern dam safety standards  existed.

伊登维尔大坝建于 20 年代，当时我们对岩土工程和现代大坝安全标准的大部分了解还没有出现。

Edenville Dam, in particular, had a long  history of acrimony and disputes between the dam owner and regulatory agencies.

尤其是伊登维尔大坝，大坝所有者和监管机构之间长期以来一直存在争执和纠纷。

However, this type of erosion usually happens over a longer time period  than what was witnessed at Edenville Dam.

然而，这种类型的侵蚀通常发生的时间比伊登维尔大坝所见的时间更长。

The independent forensic team took samples of  the soils within the Edenville Dam embankment and subjected them to testing to see if they were  liquefiable.

独立法医小组对伊登维尔大坝堤坝内的土壤进行了采样，并对其进行了测试，看看它们是否可液化。

At daybreak on May 19th, it was already clear  that Edenville Dam was struggling from the enormous forces of the flood.

5 月 19 日黎明时分，伊登维尔大坝已经在巨大的洪水威力中挣扎。

But, Edenville Dam had its license to generate hydropower revoked in 2018  when the owner failed to comply with FERC's safety regulations.

但是，由于业主未能遵守 FERC 的安全规定，伊登维尔大坝的水力发电许可证于 2018 年被吊销。

In their interim report on the event, the  independent forensic team considered a broad range of potential explanations for what happened at  Edenville Dam.

在关于该事件的中期报告中，独立法医小组考虑了对伊登维尔大坝发生的事情的各种可能的解释。

Edenville Dam actually did have a primitive  internal drainage system made from clay tiles, but many of the drains in the area of the failure  appeared to be missing in a recent inspection.

伊登维尔大坝实际上确实有一个由粘土砖制成的原始内部排水系统，但在最近的检查中， 故障区域的许多排水沟似乎都缺失了。