[1] Due to the early hour of the dam failure, most of the victims were asleep, which resulted in the high death toll.
[1] The Romanian Communist authorities announced in the press only 48 deaths, in order to avoid declaration of a national day of mourning.
[1] The survivors were compensated for the loss of their dwellings, receiving from the state an apartment or construction materials to rebuild their houses.
Also, a factor may have been the heterogenous content of the pond, as between 1936 and 1971, various materials were deposited, having different characteristics, leading to a fault slip.
[1] The prosecutors investigated the dam planner and five other people, but eventually they decided to drop all charges, as the disaster could not have been easily predicted.