Nambe Dam maintenance today

As #DamSafetyMonth comes to a close, we’re giving you a behind-the-scenes look at ongoing maintenance at Raystown Lake Dam with Baltimore District dive #safety coordinator Jeffrey Price. 🤿⚠️ In this interview, he details the efforts underway to ensure the continued operational capabilities of the dam — and how we keep #dive teams safe in the process. | Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Our dam safety engineers and dam technicians have been doing some in-valve-able checks lately 👀 As part of the dam safety regulations, each year our team inspects and tests all our critical valves at each dam to ensure they can open and close as needed. All our dams have free discharge valves (FDV), which can be used to draw down lake levels in the event of an emergency, and also help our team carry out maintenance when needed. We’re talking spillway repair works, dam upgrades and valve tower b