Water Resource Management Company (WRM)

Ministry of Energy

Iranian Approach to Dam Safety

-Practice

-Achievements

-Future plans

Dam Safety Procedure

Dam Safety ProcedureGeneral Plan

Monitoring

Consultant Companies

Emergency Action Plan

(EAP)

Periodic Dam Safety Review

Dam Retrofitting

Owner

Dam Safety Practice Monitoring Activities Levels in WRM Company

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Dam Safety Practice Monitoring Activities Dam Safety Group

Dam Safety Group

Data Reading Data Recording Data Reduction Data Evaluation MaintenanceRegular

InspectionEmergency Inspection

Technical Archive

Regular Reports Case Reports

Immediate Warning in Emergency Conditions

EAP

Dam Operation

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Dam Safety Practice Monitoring Activities Dam Safety Office (Regional Water Companies)

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Management and Programming

Dam Behavior Evaluation

Immediate Warning in Emergency Conditions

EAP

Operation Office

Periodic and Case Inspections

Dam Safety Committee

Preparing Annual Reports

Case Reports

Decision Making for Case Studies

and Rehabilitation

actions

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building and Completing Technical Archive

Building and Completing Data

Bank

Dam Safety OfficeWRM

Safety PoliciesReview of Reports

EAPDam Safety Committee

Specialized Case Inspections

Data Banks

Decision Making for Case Studies

and Rehabilitation

actions

Dam Safety Practice Monitoring Activities Dam Safety Office (WRM Company)

Educating staff responsible for dam safety program

inspecting of all dams under operation regularly and preparing

related reports

Specifying the current state of safety in large dams and

determining the required remedial actions

Dam Safety Achievements

Taking immediate action to unusual events such as earthquake

and preparing related safety reports based on the provided

guidelines

Defining detailed tasks for periodic dam safety review

Dam Safety Achievements

To carry out the periodic dam safety review

To upgrade the safety related instruments

To prepare national “Dam Safety Guidelines”

To prepare “National and Local Emergency Action Plans, Flood

Management in Upstream and Downstream”

To approve national laws in dam safety affairs in I.R. Iran

To apply Risk Analysis approach in Dam Safety Program

Future Plans

Thank You