Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety: Selecting & Accommodating Inflow Design Floods for Dams

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Year: 1998
Pages: 54
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 0756710642

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Harold W. Andress, Jr. (pf); David Auchterberg (ed). The purpose of these Guidelines issued by the Nat. Dam Safety Program, Fed. Emergency Mgt. Agency (FEMA), is to provide thorough & consistent procedures for selecting & accommodating Inflow Design Floods (IDFs). The IDF is the flood flow above which the incremental increase in water surface elevation downstream due to failure of a dam or other water retaining structure is no longer considered to present an unacceptable additional downstream threat. Chapters: definition of terms; selecting inflow design floods; accommodating inflow design floods; references by type; & inflow design flood selection procedures. Flowcharts & tables.

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