21.1. Subject to sections 22 and 24, a dam’s safety check flood may be less than that established under section 21, without being less than the centennial flood, if an engineer demonstrates that a dam failure during such a flood would cause a consequence category lower than that determined pursuant to sections 16 to 18.
The demonstration by the engineer must be sent to the Minister, together with the dam failure analysis or the rough inundation maps referred to in section 18.
O.C. 901-2014, s. 2; 989-2023O.C. 989-2023, s. 1611a.