Dam Safety Standards, Rehabilitations, and Failures

Richard M. Robinson ()
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Richard M. Robinson: State University of New York

Chapter Chapter 10 in Restoring America's Rivers, 2025, pp 295-330 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The organization that establishes safety standards for America’s dams is the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO). It arose in the 1970s because of significant and tragic dam failures. These standards classify dams into (1) their potential for destruction in case of failure (fatalities and infrastructure effects) and (2) their condition and therefore likelihood of failure. America’s dams are owned and operated by either federal agencies, or state entities, or by private interests. Whatever the ownership, the Army Corps of Engineers maintains a “National Inventory of Dams” (NID) that classifies according to seventy characteristics, and that also maintains “inundation maps” that indicate the flood consequences in case of failure. America’s requirements for dam restoration and maintenance have responded to these new institutions.

Keywords: Association of State Dam Safety Officials; ASDSO; National Inventory of Dams; NID; Inundation maps; Dam failures; National Dam Inspection Program; Teton Dam; National Environmental Policy Act; High Hazard Potential; Kelly Barnes Dam; Oroville Dam; Spencer Dam; Lake Champlain Basin Program; Adirondack dams; Montpelier flood; New York’s dams; Vermont’s dams; National Dam Safety Program; Senator Henry Jackson (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81758-8_10

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