National Dam Safety Program. Elliot Davis Lake Dam (MO 10129), Missouri - Kansas City Basin, Howard County, Missouri. Phase I Inspection Report.

Elliot Davis Lake Dam was inspected by an interdisciplinary team of engineers. The purpose of the inspection was to make an assessment of the general condition of the dam with respect to safety, based upon available data and visual inspection, in order to determine if the dam poses hazards to human life or property. Our inspection and evaluation indicates that the spillway does not meet the criteria set forth in the guidelines for a dam having the above size and hazard potential. The spillway will not pass the flood expected to be exceeded once in one hundred years without overtopping the dam. The spillway will pass 17% of the Probable Maximum Flood without overtopping the dam. The Probable Maximum Flood (PMF) is defined as the flood that may be expected from the most severe combination of critical meteorologic and hydrologic conditions that are reasonably possible in the region.