Annual self-reports
Annual self-reports (formerly dam status reports) are completed and submitted by dam owners through this application in response to an information request.
The questions in this survey should be answered based on activities, information or work undertaken for your dam(s) in the calendar year. The purpose of this compliance survey is to collect information to confirm your compliance as a dam owner with the Dam Safety Regulation and to identify trends across the province. Please answer the questions accurately and honestly. If multiple dam owners are experiencing similar challenges meeting the requirements of the regulation, this allows the dam safety section to identify an issue and adjust the program, training or technical resources.
Dam owners are required to submit an annual self-report to the Dam Safety Program. Dam safety officers use this information to assess compliance between dam safety audits and confirm information in the provincial dam database is current. Review of the annual self-report responses by the dam safety officer may take time, so if there is an immediate dam safety concern, you should contact a dam safety officer as soon as possible.
The Dam Safety Program will send a letter to dam owners in December of each year requesting them to complete their annual self-report by March 1 of the following calendar year.
Please answer the questions accurately. The questions are organized based on the Dam Safety Regulation. Schedule 2 is referenced in many of the questions and refers to the table at the end of the regulation describing required frequency of activities based on a dam's failure consequence classification. Refer to the help text for specific sections of the regulation relevant to the question.
Abbreviations and terms
The following abbreviations and terms are used in the questions and are as defined by the Dam Safety Regulation:
- Inundation area: The estimated area downstream of the dam that would experience flooding if the dam was to fail catastrophically.
- DEP: Dam emergency plan
- OMS Manual: Operation, maintenance and surveillance manual
- Hazardous condition: Conditions, including without limitation, defects or insufficiencies of the dam that (a) are or are likely to be hazardous to the dam, or (b) may reasonably be anticipated to cause all or part of the dam, or any operation or action at or in connection with the dam, to be or become potentially hazardous to (i)public safety, (ii)the environment, or (iii)land or other property
- Potential safety hazard: Means conditions that are not yet, but have the potential to become, hazardous conditions in relation to the dam
- Formal Inspection: A thorough on-site inspection of the dam and dam site conducted by a person who is an owner of the dam or an agent of an owner of the dam
- Site surveillance: Monitoring of a dam and the area surrounding or adjacent to the dam through visual observations and if there is instrumentation relating to the dam, through the systematic collection of instrumentation readings and analysis and interpretation of the readings
- Dam safety review (DSR): A formal report prepared by a professional engineer who has qualifications and experience in dam safety analysis to determine if the dam is safe, or if not safe what actions are required to make it safe
