Themes and Table

Dam Safety in California: Draft

DongSoon Park

Themes and Purposes:
1. Address a well-organized and informative information regarding dam safety guideline in California
2. Provide some case histories of partial or full failure of dams and their effects in California
3. Describe some promising solutions to be useful for citizens, policy-makers and professionals

In order to understand a dam safety issue, firstly federal dam safety guidelines that are currently applied are summarized with its history. And then, past dam failure and remediation case histories are provided with abundant references and data. Finally, current efforts underway are introduced and also, Solutions being considered are suggested in very detail.
Based on the above coherent contents, the following would be an upper class outline for this web-page.


Outlines

1. Introduction
1.1 Context / Description
1.2 Stakeholders, Interests and Agencies involved
1.2.1 FEMA
1.2.2 DWR / DSOD
1.2.3 ASDSO
1.2.4 USBR
1.2.5 USACE
1.2.6 USSD
1.2.7 Others

2. Dam Safety Problems

3. Dam Safety Guideline
3.1 History
3.2 National Dam Safety Program
3.3 California Dam Safety Program
3.4 Federal Guideline
3.5 FEMA Emergency Action Plan
3.6 FEMA Seismic Safety
3.7 FEMA Flood Safety

4. Case histories
4.1 Earthquake induced Cases
4.1.1 Lower San Fernando Dam
4.1.2 Austrian Dam
4.1.3 LA Dam
4.1.4 Coyote Dam
4.1.5 Sheffield Dam
4.2 Other Cases
4.2.1 San Luis Dam
4.2.2 Baldwin Hills Dam
4.2.3 St. Francis Dam
4.2.4 Calaveras Dam
4.2.5 Teton Dam
4.3 Human and Economic Consequences

5. Promising Solutions
5.1 Dam Inspections
5.2 Dam Surveillance
5.3 Dam Remediation and Rehabilitation

6. Current Efforts underway

7. Conclusion

8. Sources and References

The above outlines can be changeable according to better ideas or comments of professor, other students, and author’s interests and political sensitivity.

Some basic statistics and contents to help reader’s understanding for this outlines are shown in the next pages.