Pocket Safety Guide for Dams
and Impoundments
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Responsibilities and Liability
- Dam Diagram
- Possible Dam Failures
- Outlet Structures
- Dam Problems
- Sinkholes
- Slide, Slump, or Slip
- Broken Down or Missing Riprap
- Erosion
- Trees or Obscuring Vegetation
- Rodent Activity and Animal Impact
- Livestock and Cattle Traffic
- Transverse Cracking
- Longitudinal Cracking
- Low Area in the Crest of a Dam
- Excessive Quantity and/or Muddy Water Exiting From a Point
- Seepage Water Exiting as a Boil in the Foundation
- Seepage Water Exiting at the Abutment Contact
- Seepage Water Exiting From a Point Adjacent to the Outlet Pipe
- Failure of Concrete or Rock Outfall Structures
- Outlet Releases Eroding the Toe of the Dam
- Excessive Vegetation or Debris in the Spillway Channel or Around the Inlet
- Erosion of Spillway Channels
- Resources
- Web Sites
- Useful Terms
- About the Author
