Rapid drawdown of the reservoir due to pumped storage use or dam failure can cause landslide at the reservoir's edge as lateral support is removed faster than pore-water pressures decrease in the soil or rock.
(Rapid drawdown of the reservoir due to pumped storage use or dam failure; can cause; landslide; L:at the reservoir's edge as lateral support) (pore-water pressures; decrease; L:in the soil or rock)
Rapid drawdown of the reservoir due to pumped storage use or dam failure pore-water pressures
can cause decrease
landslide L:at the reservoir's edge as lateral support
L:in the soil or rock