Theme 1 - Hydrology and Hydraulics

Committee C: Hydraulics for Dams – Victor Pavlov

Committee H: Dam Safety – Andy Hughes

Committee S: Flood evaluation and dam safety – Alan Warren

Committee Y: Climate change – Steven Usher 

• Blockage management guide – Environment Agency (2019). Report SC110005/R1
• Floods and reservoir safety: 4th edition. Institution of Civil Engineers (2015). ICE Publishing, 80pp
• Guidance for the design and maintenance of stepped masonry spillways - Environment Agency (2010) 
• Flood estimation handbook, CEH (1999) 

B182 – Sediment management in reservoirs (pre-print)

B178 – Operation of hydraulic structures for dams (pre-print)

B176 – Blockage of spillways and outlet works (pre-print)

B172 - Technological advancements in spillway design - progress and innovations from 1985 – 2015 (pre-print)

B170 – Flood evaluation and dam safety (2018)

B169 – Global Climate Change, Dams, Reservoirs and related Water Resources (pre-print)

B162 – The Interaction of Hydraulic Processes and Reservoirs (pre-print)

B156 – Integrated flood risk management (2014)

B147 – Sedimentation and sustainable use of reservoirs and river systems 

B142 - Bulletin on safe passage of extreme floods (2012)

B140 - Sediment transport and deposition in reservoirs- Mathematical Modelling (pre-print) 

B131 – Role of dams in flood mitigation – a review (2006)

B125 – Dams and floods – guidelines and case histories (2003)

B082 – Selection of design flood – current methods (1992)

B081 – Spillways: shockwaves and air entrainment (1992)

B067 – Sedimentation control of reservoirs – guidelines (1988)

B058 – Spillways for dams (1987)

B049 – Operation of hydraulic structures of dams (1986)

B048 – River control during dam construction (1986)

• Butterley impounding reservoir spillway improvement works (2017)
• Flood storage reservoirs – 40 years of lessons learned (2015)
• Floods and reservoir safety 4th ed. – an update on plans for revision (2013)
• FEH rainfall DDF model for reservoir safety (2013)
• Waves and wave overtopping on reservoir structures (2011)
• Spillway improvement works for Yorkshire Water (2010)

Defra/EA are preparing to commission new research on the estimation of extreme flood estimation in the UK. This work will be delivered in two phases. Phase 1 is likely to be completed in 2021. The development of new national guidelines for estimating PMP and PMF (Phase 2) will follow and is likely to take 1 – 2 years to complete. 

Following the government review of the 2019 incident at Toddbrook reservoir, new research on the inspection and evaluation of spillway structures is planned.