WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 346
Failure impact ratings for dams
WATER SUPPLY (SAFETY AND RELIABILITY) ACT 2008 - SECT 346
Failure impact ratings for dams
346 Failure impact ratings for dams
(1) A dam has, or a proposed dam after its construction will have, a category
1 failure impact rating if—
(a) a failure impact assessment for the dam
states that the population at risk is 2 or more persons but not more than 100
persons; and
(b) the chief executive, under section 349, accepts the failure
impact assessment.
(2) A dam has, or a proposed dam after its construction
will have, a category 2 failure impact rating if—
(a) a failure impact
assessment for the dam states that the population at risk is more than 100
persons; and
(b) the chief executive, under section 349, accepts the failure
impact assessment.
(3) In this section—
"population at risk" —
(a) means the number of persons, worked out under the
failure impact assessment guidelines, whose safety will be at risk if the dam
or the proposed dam after its construction fails; but
(b) does not include—
(i) a resident on the parcel of land on which the dam is situated; or