TY - JOUR T1 - Hydrological Safety of Vaturu Dam by Evaluating Spillway Adequacy AU - Mohammad, Munira AU - Pagkale, Patrick Jione AU - Abd Rahman, Nor Faiza AU - Mohmad Sharıff, Mohamad Shakri PY - 2022 DA - December DO - 10.55549/epstem.1226656 JF - The Eurasia Proceedings of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics JO - EPSTEM PB - ISRES Publishing WT - DergiPark SN - 2602-3199 SP - 349 EP - 355 VL - 21 LA - en AB - Probable Maximum Flood is considered as one of the most adopted inflow design floods inassessing the adequacy of dam structure in current practices. It is the largest flood that could conceivably occurat a particular location and frequently estimated from Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP). This studyincorporates hydrological modelling using HEC-HMS to simulate the outflow providing the results used in thecatchment procedure of translation of PMP to PMFs for a 24 to 168-hour duration. The adequacy of VaturuWater Supply Dams (CA= 40 km2) which is located in Fiji will be assessed in the context of extrememeteorological events of the PMP/PMF magnitude. The flood rise during these events should not exceed orovertop the dam crest level. Vaturu dam is a domestic water supply embankment dam built in the 1980s to caterfor the water supply needs of the Nadi and Lautoka supply zones. A conventional reservoir routing procedureusing the Goodrich method is then carried out for all PMP/PMF durations, i.e., 24 to 168 hours. During thisperiod, flood rise levels were noted to be restricted to the Dam Crest level of +532 m ASL. The results and itsanalysis validated the safety of the Vaturu Dam and the ability of the dam to discharge the onslaught ofPMP/PMF safely. KW - Rainfall-runoff KW - HEC-HMS KW - Vaturu Dam KW - PMP/PMF routing UR - https://doi.org/10.55549/epstem.1226656 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/2862344 ER -