Engineering Guidelines for the Evaluation of Hydropower Projects. Chapter 10.Other Dams

摘要

The guidelines presented in this chapter provide staff engineers with recommendedprocedures and criteria to be used in reviewing and evaluating the safety of the following types of dams: buttress dams; concrete dams on pile foundations; timber dams; inflatable dams; stone masonry dams; water retaining power plant structures; cellular sheet pile structures; and mechanically stabilized earth dams. The staff engineers' review will be conducted to ensure that all decisions, methods, and procedures performed by licensees/exemptees, or their consultants, are sound regarding dam safety, and to ensure that the Commission's Dam Safety program objectives as stated in Part 12 of the Commission's regulations are consistent with accepted up-to-date procedures (the term licensees also refers to exemptees or applicants for license or exemptees from license where appropriate).