Boyce Hydro Power, LLC

The Edenville and Sanford failures became an accountability test because a century-old earthen embankment failed by a mechanism that the water-dam safety system had not identified; a long federal spillway-capacity dispute ended in license revocation and a handoff to state jurisdiction without a completed whole-dam stability review; the downstream cascade converted technical and governance weaknesses into community-wide loss; and bankruptcy, environmental claims, public reconstruction and proof of safe operation each answer a different question.