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Safety of Small, Rural Dams and Barrier Lake Management

This note provides lessons learned and recommendations for artificial dams and barrier lakes following an earthquake. In the case of artificial dams, emphasis has been placed on small, rural dams rather than on larger, well-engineered dams because...

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Main Author:	Palmieri, Alessandro
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	CIVIL ENGINEERING DAM DAM ENGINEERING DAM OWNER DAM SAFETY DAM SAFETY ASPECTS DAM SAFETY MANAGEMENT DAM SAFETY PROGRAM DAM SAFETY STANDARDS DISASTER DISASTER ASSISTANCE DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DISASTER RECOVERY DISASTER REDUCTION DISASTER RISK DOWNSTREAM AREAS DOWNSTREAM POPULATION DRAINAGE DRAINS EARLY WARNING EARLY WARNING SYSTEM EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS EARTH DAMS EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKES EMBANKMENT EMBANKMENT DAMS EMERGENCY MEASURES EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FAILURE MODES FATALITIES FILL DAMS FLOOD FLOODED FLOODS FLOW GAUGING FLOW OF WATER HIGH-HAZARD DAMS HYDROPOWER HYDROPOWER GENERATION INADEQUATE SPILLWAY CAPACITY INSPECTIONS OF DAMS INTAKE WORKS INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION IRRIGATION LAKE LAKE MANAGEMENT LAKES LANDSLIDE LANDSLIDES LARGE DAM LARGE DAMS MASS MEASUREMENTS MEDIUM-SIZED DAMS MILLION PEOPLE NATURAL DAMS NATURAL HAZARDS PREVENTIVE ACTIONS RAINFALL REMOTE SENSING RESERVOIR RESERVOIR CAPACITY RESERVOIRS RISK ANALYSIS RISK ASSESSMENT RIVER RIVER FLOW RIVERS RURAL DAMS SAFETY SAFETY CONDITIONS SAFETY OF DAMS SATELLITE IMAGERY SEEPAGE SLOPE FAILURE SMALL DAM SMALL DAMS SMALLER DAMS SPILLWAY SPILLWAYS TOOLS WATER LEVEL WATER SUPPLY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/12/13338375/safety-small-rural-dams-barrier-lake-management http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10131

Safety of Small, Rural Dams and Barrier Lake Management

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