Reservoir Safety
Reservoirs Act 1975: Appointment of Panel Engineers
The Reservoirs Act 1975 requires reservoir undertakers to appoint specialist engineers from a series of panels. Appointments to panels are made by the Secretary of State after consultation with the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Engineers wanting to apply to any of the panels should email their application form to grant.horsburgh@defra.gsi.gov.uk. Please see
- Guidance to applicants for appointment and reappointment
- All Reservoirs Panel - competence matrix
- Service Reservoirs Panel - competence matrix
- Supervising Panel - competence matrix
- Non-impounding Reservoirs Panel - competence matrix
In order for us to process the application, applicants should send a cheque for £385 made payable to ‘Defra’ to:
Grant Horsburgh
Defra
2nd Floor Ergon House
Horseferry Road
London
SW1A 2AL
A description of the panels and the current list of appointed panel engineers can be found on the Environment Agency’s reservoir safety pages.
Research
The parties involved in reservoir safety - reservoir owners, specialist engineers, and local authorities with enforcement duties - all have a need for an authoritative and developing source of information and advice on reservoir safety. Defra (and its predecessors), along with other interested parties, sponsors research to contribute to this process. Work is underway to make all relevant research available on the Environment Agency's website. In the meantime please contact us if you wish to obtain any of the reports listed below:
- Post-incident reporting system for UK dams February 2007
- Reservoir Flood Plans June 2006
- Interim Guide to Quantitative Risk Assessment for UK reservoirs June 2004
- Floods and Reservoir Safety (FEH/FSR) - Revised Guidance for Panel Engineers June 2004
- Early detection of internal
erosion - feasibility report November 2003
- Vulnerability of UK dam embankments
to increased direct rainfall on their surfaces January 2003
- Climate change impacts
on the safety of British reservoirs January 2002
- Sedimentation in storage
reservoirs February 2001
Page last
modified: 5 August 2008
Page published: 23 June 2008