Dam Bill

[duckman88]

The bill requires current owners of dams of a certain size to register them and annually report the status of dam safety through a check list. example: holes, rupture, spillway status, tree growth,

It also grows government by adding regulations and new employees.

It really does not change what dam owners should already be doing other than the reporting requirement.


I made sure the small ponds and duck ponds were excluded..

I would be careful with that language unless that is how ambiguous it is in the bill. Do you mean duck impoundments as in leveed areas flooded for the sole purpose of waterfowl hunting or any body of water that is lowered/raised for the purpose of waterfowl hunting? I would imagine that there are a lot of guys with 'impoundments' that are actually ponds by definition that they manipulate the water level to flood portions of it.

Edit: also DT can you site the section with the language excluding duck ponds? I understand the bill more than likely will not say 'duck pond' but where in the bill is the exclusion duck ponds would fall under?