Best practice in dam safety performance monitoring

The report summarises best practice guidelines for dam safety performance monitoring programmes.

• From: Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Environment Agency
• Published: 22 February 2021

• Category: Whole life asset management
• Topics: Asset maintenance, Asset monitoring, Asset performance, Big data, Deterioration, Health, safety and wellbeing, Modelling, Reservoirs, Resilient infrastructure
• Project status: Completed
• Project code: SC090027
• Date of completion: 30 April 2014

Documents

Dam safety performance monitoring and data analysis management best practice - summary (50KB) PDF

Perfformiad a monitro diogelwch argaeau - arfer gorau - Welsh summary (111KB) PDF

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Details

This report was produced by The Centre for Energy Advancement through Technological Innovation’s (CEATI’s) Dam Safety Interest Group (DSIG). It summarises best practice guidelines for dam safety performance monitoring programmes. It’s based on the experience of people who are actively involved in this field and a review of recent publications.

The objective of this report is to note and bring together good examples of dam surveillance (inspection and instrumentation) and data collection (analysis, management and interpretation) in order to improve dam performance and maintenance.

This project was started in July 2009 and completed in April 2014.

Published 22 February 2021