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  2. Neversink Reservoir - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, after residents raised concerns regarding the soundness of both Merriman and Neversink dams, a local newspaper obtained copies of inspection reports for both and found that the handwriting and information relating to the structural soundness of the dams on many of them over a three-year period was virtually identical, suggesting they had been routinely photocopied.

  3. Rondout Reservoir - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, after residents raised concerns regarding the soundness of both Merriman and Neversink dams following emergency repairs to Schoharie Dam, a local newspaper, the Times Herald-Record, obtained copies of weekly visual inspection reports for both and found that the handwriting and information relating to the appearance of the dams on weekly reports compiled by inspector Ronald Hewlett and ...

  4. Water Resources Development Act of 1986 - Wikipedia

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    Requires Federal officials to consult and cooperate with State officials on the design and safety of dams. Authorizes appropriations for the training of State dam safety inspectors for FY 1988 through 1992. Directs the Secretary to begin research to develop techniques and equipment for more efficient dam inspection.

  5. National Inventory of Dams - Wikipedia

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    The National Inventory of Dams (NID) is a congressionally authorized database documenting dams in the United States and its territories. [1] It is maintained and published by the US Army Corps of Engineers. [1]

  6. Dam failure - Wikipedia

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    The reservoir emptying through the failed Teton Dam on June 5, 1976 Ruins of the dam of Vega de Tera (Spain) after breaking in 1959. A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water or the likelihood of such an uncontrolled release. [1]

  7. Reservoir safety - Wikipedia

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    The legislation authorising this program was last amended by The Dam Safety Act of 2006. Although some 79 people were killed by dam failures in 1979 at the Laurel Run Dam and at the Kelly Barnes Dam, it is likely that only a single death in the US has been caused by subsequent failures which was below the failed Spencer Dam. [7]

  8. Hydropower policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Water is required for all life, but since ancient times, mankind has also employed this natural resource for other specifically human productive uses. Millennia ago man learned to navigate on water, learned to dam and divert it for irrigation and build aqueducts and canals to carry it where possible, and learned to convert the power of moving water to mechanical energy to perform work. [1]

  9. Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam - Wikipedia

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    Kakhovka Dam cross-section scheme with the inspection tunnel marked in red. Christopher Binnie, a water engineer specializing in dams and water resources development, [58] and visiting professor at the University of Exeter, said the fact that there were "two breaches, either side of a structure", indicates that natural causes are highly ...

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