Dams & HEPP for Sustainable Development

Dr Enrique CIFRES chaired the session on DAM SURVEILLANCE AND OPERATIONAL BEHAVIOR at Antalya (Turkey) during the last meeting of the ICOLD EUROPEAN CLUB.

He stated that dam monitoring should be conceived like human body care, taking advantage of nature's wisdom, which provide a step by step monitoring system of health and body performance thanks a complex set of sensors that send signals as pain, pressure, heat,.. to the brain to be analysed from soft ones to more severe ones.

Also the chain data-information-diagnosis-safety assessment-decision making has to inspire the real need of monitoring instead a huge collection of no-sense data files, sometimes useless for a smart management of dam surveillance.
Seismicity and design hypothesis confirmation were among the topics the session dealt with.