Dam Failure
South Carolina has over 50,000 dams throughout the state, including 34 federally regulated dams and over 2250 state regulated dams. At any time, one or more of these dams may be threatened by upstream flash floods, earthquakes, neglect or any combination of the above, which can cause personal injury or death, significant water damage to property or additional failures to dams located downstream. More detailed information is contained in Appendix D, Annex 25 of the State Emergency Operations Plan.
