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Guidelines & References

Guidelines & References

The Dam Safety program requires dam engineering analyses and designs to be based on appropriate standardized state-of-the-practice methods. The list below includes examples of standard references on dam design, construction, repair, and analysis that the Dam Safety program routinely accepts.  A much more extensive list of references is provided in the Instruction for Filing an Application document.

USBR 1981 Freeboard Criteria and GuidelinesUSBR 2012 Freeboard Criteria and GuidelinesNOAA 1984 Hydro meteorological Report No 49USBR 1998 Prediction of Embankment Dam Breach Parameters FEMA 1998 Selecting and Accommodating Inflow Design Floods for DamsUSBR 1996 Concrete Repair ManualNRCS 1994 Gradation Design of Sand and Gravel FiltersFEMA 2005 Technical Manual for Dam Owners Impacts of Plants on Earthen DamsUSACE 1977 Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimates, Colorado River and Great BaUSACE 1984 Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimates, Colorado River and Great BaADWR 2007 State Standard For Hydrologic Modeling GuidelinesADWR 1996 Flood Protection Guidelines for Dams with No SpillwaysADWR 2004 PMF Studies for Evaluation of Spillway Adequacy

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