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Emergency plan being written for the Link River Dam  

Action plan will be kept confidential from the public


 
By TY BEAVER
H&N Staff Writer
May 2, 2009

   The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is developing an emergency action plan for the Link River Dam after learning the structure does not have one. 

   Bill Thompson, manager of the county’s emergency management agency, told the county budget committee Monday about the lack of a plan should the dam fail. He said the Bureau should have one in place by September. 

   Thompson and Kevin Moore, the Bureau’s Klamath Basin office spokesman, said the dam is not in danger of failing and it would take a cataclysmic event for it to crumble, but said an emergency plan needs to be in place. 

   “It’s simply a technicality,” Thompson said. 

   Dams owned by the Bureau must have emergency action plans. According to the agency’s Web site, the plans are updated annually and practiced every three years with a variety of scenarios. 

   Two other Klamath Basin dams operated by the agency have plans — Gerber Reservoir in Klamath County and Clear Lake in Modoc County. The Link River Dam is owned by the Bureau but is operated by PacifiCorp. 

   Moore said a recent inspection revealed the lack of an emergency plan. The agency has developed a draft plan and will have a final version soon. 

    Dam emergency action plans are confidential information and the Link River plan will not be made public.
 
(To see what a Dam Emergency Action Plan looks like, see
Colorado Water Resources:  Sample Dam Emergency Action Plan, DAMID: 111111 Revised: April 10, 2007)  ~ KBB
 

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