FLOOD10053

• County: Statewide
• Community: State of Colorado
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: A Study to Identify Attitudes and Problems with Integrating Floodplain Management and Dam Safety
• Date: 8/1/1984
• Prepared For: University of Denver
• Prepared By: Stephen A. Spann
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

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From the 185 questionaires returned,

the following

major attitudes were discovered:

1. Developers of land below a reservoir should pay
for the required modifications to the dam.

2. Property deeds should inform the prospective owner
that the property lies in a hazardous area and should
indicate the probability of the hazard occuring.

3. Individuals should have the right to live
hazardous area if they are:

in

a

a.
b.

informed of the risk
willing to sign a waiver to claims
against the government for relief
willing to accept some form of
accountability if their children are
lost due to the hazard

c.

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4. Professional engineers practicing the design or
evaluation of reservoir dams should have a specialty license
as an indication that they are qualified and experienced to
do the work.

5. Even though costs of a dam safety program are
passed on to the consumer of water related products, the dam
owner should pay the cost of the program.

6. Dam owners of high and moderate hazard dams should
have qualified and licensed operators.

7. Respondees consider a dam safe if it has less that
one chance in a thousand of failing_

Since

any

dam safety program should meet

the

objectives of

society,

the author

met

with professional

engineers from both the public and

private sector, dam

owners, floodplain managers, developers, social risk managers

and attorneys.

The group used the "nominal group process" to

identify social values and alternatjve dam safety programs.

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