About the NPDP

Program Overview

The NPDP is a cooperative effort of engineers and dam safety professionals in the U.S. to create an information resource on dams and their performance of dams. The objectives of the NPDP are to retrieve, archive, and disseminate information on the performance of dams.

The NPDP creates an information track that facilitates the evaluation and use of dam performance data to improve methods of design and rehabilitation, and the development of effective public policy.

The NPDP will provide policy makers with information on the performance of dams that is comparable to data available to professionals and the public in other fields involving public health and safety. Information on public health, such as the rise in tuberculosis cases or the increase in the number of HIV-positive individuals, provides lawmakers and administrators with valuable input to public policy decisions. A goal of the NPDP is to develop resources that will elevate dam safety to a similar level.

Executive Committee

• Committee Charter
• Committee Members

NPDP Secretariat and Archive

The NPDP secretariat and archive is located at Stanford University.

The archive contains over six thousand documents. Among the library's holdings are the dam incident files collected by the U.S. Committee on Large Dams that were the basis for the 1975 and 1988 reports, Lessons From Dam Incidents. A database tracks the documents in the archive and the dam incidents on file.

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