Water Resource Management Company (WRM) Ministry of Energy

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Water Resource Management Company (WRM) Ministry
of Energy

• Iranian Approach to Dam Safety
• Practice
• Achievements
• Future plans

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Dam Safety Procedure
Dam Safety Procedure General Plan
Owner
Monitoring
Emergency Action Plan (EAP)
Consultant Companies
Periodic Dam Safety Review
Dam Retrofitting
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Dam Safety Practice Monitoring Activities Levels
in WRM Company
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Dam Safety Office WRM Company
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Dam Safety Practice Monitoring Activities Dam
Safety Group
Dam Safety Group
Dam Operation
Immediate Warning in Emergency Conditions
Regular Inspection
Emergency Inspection
Data Reading
Data Recording
Data Reduction
Data Evaluation
Maintenance
Technical Archive
Regular Reports
Case Reports
EAP
Dam Safety Office Regional Water Company
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Dam Safety Practice Monitoring Activities Dam
Safety Office (Regional Water Companies)
Dam Safety Office Regional Water Company
Operation Office
Decision Making for Case Studies and
Rehabilitation actions
Immediate Warning in Emergency Conditions
Dam Safety Committee
building and Completing Technical Archive
Building and Completing Data Bank
Management and Programming
Dam Behavior Evaluation
Periodic and Case Inspections
Preparing Annual Reports
Case Reports
EAP
Dam Safety Office WRM
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Dam Safety Practice Monitoring Activities Dam
Safety Office (WRM Company)
Dam Safety Office WRM
Decision Making for Case Studies and
Rehabilitation actions
Dam Safety Committee
Specialized Case Inspections
Safety Policies
Review of Reports
Data Banks
EAP
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Dam Safety Achievements

• 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

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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

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Future Plans

• 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

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Thank You