This makes it acceptable for applications that are high hazard or where valves are downstream.
Approve plans and specifications for construction and repair of all high hazard (Category I) dams.
The hazard ratio would be 2, indicating higher hazard of death from the treatment.
Terra has been too rich for too long: we've grown old and content, no more high hazards for us.
Patrice's group had already calculated areas of high and low pyroclastic hazard.
The actual designation is "high hazard" and has nothing to do with safety - it is based on location and size.
Before 2000, only dams considered a high hazard were subject to routine inspection by the state.
As land development expands toward areas of relatively high volcanic hazard, the threat to life and property on Hawai'i will increase accordingly.
For high hazards, complex or novel situations, we build on good practice, using more formal decision making techniques, including cost-benefit analysis, to inform our judgement.
The areas of highest hazard are those that could be affected by pyroclastic flows and lahars (see map).