Collapsed Lao dam ‘was built on a sinkhole’
The site of a tragic dam collapse in southern Laos three months ago was geologically unsuitable for such a project, an American engineer has claimed.
Richard Meehan is an MIT-trained engineer who teaches at Stanford University in the United States, who has experience in designing and building dams in northeastern Thailand. Meehan recently published a diagnosis on the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam failure.
