Low-Head Dam Alerting for Rescuer Safety Fact Sheet

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will provide a readily accessible toolset to help First Responders identify low-head dam (LHD) hazards and promulgate potential alerting and life-saving information. This effort will deliver freely accessible, user-friendly toolboxes to help investigate public safety at low-head dams, enable modelers to consider site-specific conditions and alerts of potential hazards, and deliver an updated version of the national LHD inventory, estimated at over 13,500 sites.