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The new website is run through google products and hosted on git hub pages. It includes an
interactive map to view low head dam sites where fatalities have occurred, a searchable list of low
head dams and their incidents, a statistics bar with total numbers for fatalities and sites, and a google
form for users to report incidents (Figure 3).
The website is searchable by state, county, city, name of dam, river, date of incident, and incident
description, allowing users to 昀椀nd information pertinent to their needs and local area. The website can
be found at www.lowheaddamfatalities.org. In addition to the fatalities database website, the ASCEEWRI hosts the national inventory of low head dams. This vital resource showcases over 13,500 low
head dams and is a tool for engineers, researchers, and recreationalists alike.
References/image sources:
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Federal Register. 2017. Vol 82(4): 1997
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=low%20head%20dam accessed 23
July 2025.
3
Kern, Edward W., Rollin H. Hotchkiss, and Daniel P. Ames. "Introducing a low-head dam fatality
database and internet information portal." JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources
Association 51.5 (2015): 1453-1459.
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