Dam surveillance Guide

Prepare guidelines for the optimal organisation of all components required for dam surveillance and monitoring (independently of the Automated? Monitoring, already covered by Bulletin n° 118) with the purpose of dissemination in the fields of:

Visual inspection methods and procedures for improving their efficiency;
Continued availability and maintenance of technical data (documentation management for storage of engineering data and all information needed for periodical appraisal of the dam condition and support of engineering judgment as well as knowledge transfer from one generation to the next);
Optimization of instrumentation and monitoring (depending on the dam type and condition) and upgrading of instrumentation (on old dams);
Efficient management of monitoring data (acquisition, processing, conservation) and interpretation (of processed readings and observed data) to assess the present dam condition