Non-Powered Dam Custom Analysis and Taxonomy (NPDamCAT) Framework
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Over 85,000 non-powered dams (NPDs) exist in the United States that provide services such as flood control, navigation, and water storage for irrigation/domestic water use (USACE 2019). The existing infrastructure of NPDs poses an opportunity for improving economic and environmental performance and generating electricity, as well as a challenge for maintaining aging structures and remediating fragmented river systems. NPD stakeholders interested in the rehabilitation, retrofit, or removal of NPDs must have the relevant information about the population of dams to support decision-making. Each NPD has unique characteristics describing its design, operation, environmental impacts, social impacts, and economic potential. The large number of dams, the diversity of interests related to dams, the variety of dam characteristics, and the types of data required to describe dams all pose major challenges to an analysis of the entire dam population.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1855679
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2021/2155
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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