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The project was authorized as the Justice Reservoir Project by the Flood Control Act of 1962 (H.R. 13273, PL 87-874, 87th Congress, second session). The authorized project purposes include flood risk management, water quality control, recreation, and fish and wildlife. The total cost to build the dam was $180 Million. It has prevented over $470 Million in flood damages since construction. \n\nR.D. Bailey Dam is located on the Guyandotte River approximately 112 miles above the mouth of the river at its confluence with the Ohio River at Huntington, West Virginia. The project is in Mingo County, WV approximately one mile upstream of Justice, WV. \n\nThe dam is a rolled rock embankment dam with an upstream concrete facing, intake tower, tunnel, and stilling basin and includes an uncontrolled broad-crested partially lined saddle spillway. The dam has a maximum height of 310 feet above the streambed and an overall length of 1,397 feet. The crest width of the dam is 32 feet with a maximum base width of approximately 1,250 feet. Normal outflow is controlled through gates on the intake structure and flow into the 18-foot diameter tunnel through the dam\u2019s left abutment. The spillway is an uncontrolled saddle that is over the ridge from the dam\u2019s right abutment. \n\nThe dam helps regulate waters coming from the Guyandotte River in the 540 square mile drainage area upstream of the dam. The dam helps to provide flood risk management all along the Guyandotte River including Justice, Gilbert, Logan, Barboursville, and Huntington, West Virginia and helps to provide flood risk management for the Ohio River downstream of Huntington, West Virginia. RD Bailey Dam provides waters to keep downstream rivers flowing. However, when it is projected that the Guyandotte or Ohio Rivers may cause flooding, water coming from upstream of the dam is stored until streams and rivers downstream of the dam recede. Typically storm waters can be released in a controlled manner to reduce flood impacts downstream. However, there are rare storms which can cause more rainfall and runoff than RD Bailey Dam can store safely. When this occurs, the dam\u2019s uncontrolled spillway will begin to release or spill these waters to reduce the chance that the dam could be overtopped. \n\nWhen the dam is not storing flood waters to reduce flood risks downstream, the dam operates to impound water for recreation. This lake is raised in the warmer months to support boat access and lowered in the winter months for additional flood storage.", "riskCharSummary":"A 2021 risk assessment for RD Bailey Dam classified it as having low risk of failure during a flood. Although risks associated with a breach or failure are low, the dam does not completely eliminate flood risks downstream. Flooding can still occur even if RD Bailey Dam is operating as designed. There are extremely rare (but possible) storms that could cause more rainfall than the dam can safely store. During such an event, the open spillway to the right (North) of the dam has the potential to pass up to 450 thousand cubic feet of water per second, or more than four times the amount of flow over Niagara Falls. The operation of the spillway would be necessary to prevent the dam from overtopping and potentially breaching. \n\nWhile the RD Bailey Dam spillway has never flowed, if operated it could result in significant flooding in downstream communities from Justice and Gilbert, WV to Huntington, WV. Depending on the amount of water released, significant damages to houses, buildings, factories, roads, bridges, power, and water supply may occur. Critical infrastructure, including roadways (evacuation routes) and bridges along the Guyandotte River, may not be passable due to high flood waters during spillway flows. \n\nWhile rare events like these have not occurred to date, if they were to happen, water is likely to reach hillside to hillside quickly and be more than tens of feet deep depending on the location. In the rare event RD Bailey Dam must pass these extreme flows, follow all directions from emergency officials, including evacuation orders. Failure to do so puts you and your family\u2019s lives at risk.", "riskManagementMeasures":"There are numerous activities that USACE conducts on a day-to-day basis to help manage risk at RD Bailey Dam. The dam is well maintained through continuous operations and maintenance activities, and USACE conducts detailed inspections of the dam during both normal lake levels and during flood events. 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