These categorized documents, templates and links provide helpful information and guidance for dam owners and operators and their consultants when designing new dams, undertaking inspections, maintenance and surveillance, or assessing deficiencies at an existing dam.
Engineers and Geoscientists BC (EGBC) issued a practice advisory in 2022 for registrants who provide service related to dam hydrological loading. This Practice Advisory on Dam Hydrological Loading (PDF, 185KB) provides information to develop dam hydrological loading estimates.
The B.C. Extreme Flood Project supplements available hydrology and hydrometeorological information. The guidance documents and project deliverables are useful for the design of dams, spillways, dikes, and stream crossings.
These include the:
The previous guidance for generating Probable Maximum Floods (PMF) in British Columbia is no longer recommended. The 2010 PMF Estimator for BC (3.8MB) report is for reference only. It should only be used to provide a preliminary estimate of PMFs or as a rough check on detailed PMF analyses.
For general questions or comments about dam safety, please email us at Dam.Safety@gov.bc.ca.
Download a copy of B.C. Dam Safety Program contacts (PDF, 148KB).