Tool
Living Near Dams
Description
Communities located downstream from dams can learn about risks and find information about how to react if they fail. Dam owners, safety officials, and lawmakers can learn how extreme rainfall events affect the risk of dam failure, and how to reduce those risks.
If you are a dam owner, dam safety official, lawmaker, or concerned citizen, it's important to know the risks associated with the presence of a dam, how extreme rainfall events affect the risk of dam failure, and how to reduce those risks.
Two e-booklets available on the site answer questions about dams:
- Living with Dams: Know Your Risks presents factual responses to common myths about dams
- Living with Dams: Extreme Rainfall Events describes how climate information connects the concepts of rain, floods, dam failure, and flooding downstream.
