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Low-Head Dam Alerting for Rescuer Safety Fact Sheet

DHS S&T will provide a readily accessible toolset to help First Responders identify low-head dam (LHD) hazards and promulgate potential alerting and life-saving information. This effort will deliver freely accessible, user-friendly toolboxes to help investigate public safety at low-head dams, enable modelers to consider site-specific conditions and alerts of potential hazards, and deliver an updated version of the national LHD inventory, estimated at over 13,500 sites.

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Levees and Dams Fact Sheet

The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) partners with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (USACE-ERDC) to research and assess communities’ vulnerabilities to flood hazards, to increase community resilience by improved emergency response planning, and simulating different types of failures to different components of flood infrastructure systems.

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Feature Article: Giving a Dam Some Much-Needed Support

S&T is collaborating with partners to find and test the best carbon fiber materials for concrete dam repair.

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Snapshot: Monitoring Kentucky Dams -- Protecting Waterfront Communities

The Kentucky Division of Water and S&T’s Flood Apex program are working together to establish a means of monitoring dams and alerting the communities and property owners of potential dangers.