Guide to drawdown capacity for reservoir safety and emergency planning

Research on the preferred drawdown capacity for reservoirs in the United Kingdom.

• From: Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Environment Agency
• Published: 24 February 2021

• Category: Whole life asset management
• Topics: Asset maintenance, Asset monitoring, Asset performance, Asset system optimisation, Deterioration, Health, safety and wellbeing, Reservoirs, Resilient infrastructure
• Project status: Completed
• Project code: SC130001
• Date of completion: 11 August 2017

Documents

Guide to drawdown capacity for reservoir safety and emergency planning - summary (150KB) PDF

Guide to drawdown capacity for reservoir safety and emergency planning: volume 1 - guidance (2.3MB) PDF

Guide to drawdown capacity for reservoir safety and emergency planning: volume 2 - supporting information (4.1MB) PDF

Volume 2 appendices A1, A2 and B1 (910KB) ZIP

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Details

This project has researched the preferred drawdown capacity for reservoirs in the UK and provides guidance on consistent methods for assessing the adequacy of existing drawdown facilities.

The guidance is intended for reservoir inspecting engineers who are required under UK reservoir legislation to review the drawdown capacity of reservoirs. Reservoir owners may also find the guidance useful.

Published 24 February 2021