Dam safety emergency action plan: a current practice for hydropower dam in Malaysia
There are currently 104 dams constructed in Malaysia. The dams were built for various purposes; 16 of them were built for hydropower. The dam's reservoir often presents significant risks to downstream areas if a massive downfall release occurs. The enormous downfall could be due to a dam bre...
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Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing Ltd
2021
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Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/95985/1/95985_Dam%20safety%20emergency%20action%20plan.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/95985/ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/1203/3/032030 |
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Summary: | There are currently 104 dams constructed in Malaysia. The dams were built for various
purposes; 16 of them were built for hydropower. The dam's reservoir often presents significant
risks to downstream areas if a massive downfall release occurs. The enormous downfall could
be due to a dam break event, overtopping, and emergency operational release. An incident may
occur due to massive flows over a spillway with high-speed discharge or unexpected peak
discharge. The obvious impact of the incident is direct to the community in the downstream
area. Although there is no dam failure recorded case in Malaysia since the 1900s, the possibility
of dam failure occurring is still there. Therefore, the dams must have an emergency action plan
(EAP) to prepare the likelihood of the emergency occurrences. This paper aims to explore the
EAP practices for dam incident over the region and review the EAP practices of a hydropower
dam in Malaysia. Implementing EAP in the emergency response system would minimise the
public and environment's impact due to dam failures. The benefit of establishing an EAP is to
create better communication and effective responses system among agencies during dam
emergency occurrences. This paper revolves around the EAP practices by dam owners in
mitigating the risk of dam failure occurrences |
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