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Risk Assessments for Dam Safety – Where, When, Why, How??? An introduction into Risk Informed Decision Making for Dams

Risk Assessments and the use of Risk Informed Decision Making (RIDM) as it relates to evaluation of dam safety concerns have been used by many federal agencies for larger portfolios of dams for the past couple of decades. For many state, municipal, and private dam owners, however, the concept of RIDM and evaluating a dam […]

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Financing Dam Rehabilitation with Nutrient Credits

Lake Overton Dam is a failing High Hazard dam that is privately owned and operated in Henrico, Virginia. Rehabilitating the dam is cost prohibitive for the owners but is a safety concern in the county. Henrico County Department of Public Works engaged AMT Engineering to design a dam rehab that also converted the lake to […]

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Enhancing Community Readiness for Dambreak Flooding with FEMA

Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s (DCR) Dam Safety and Floodplain Management Division was recently awarded a FEMA grant for Collaborative Technical Assistance (CTA).  It will facilitate aiding communities at risk of dam-related flooding to better understand their risk landscape and the potential consequences of dam-related emergencies. The CTA will include planning for emergencies related […]