SMALL DAMS PETITS BARRAGES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Ad Hoc Committee on Small Dams and the ICOLD Executive gratefully acknowledge,
initially, the suggestion of Mr. C.V.J. Varma from India, to create this committee, during the
72 nd Annual ICOLD Meeting, in Seoul, 2004, when he was the ICOLD President, and also to
Mr. C.B. Viotti from Brasil, the next ICOLD President, for its creation at the 73 rd Annual ICOLD
Meeting, in Tehran, 2005.
In the elaboration of the “Historical Review on Ancient Dams”, that is just the Volume I of
our ICOLD Committee, we received the special collaboration from the following members: Mr.
Mathur, from India, Mr. Matsuura, from Japan, Mrs. Miller, from The United States, Mr.
Polacek, from Czech Republic, Mr. Royet, from France, Mr. Sheng, from China, Mr. Attari,
from Iran, and Mr. Yong-Nam, from Korea.
In the elaboration of the “Small Dams – Design, Surveillance and Rehabilitation”, that is the
Volume II of our ICOLD Committee, we received collaborations from all our members, but
some very important one from Mr. Royet, from France, Mr. Badenhorst, from South Africa, Mr.
Abadjiev, from Bulgaria, Mr. Matsuura, from Japan, Mr. Polacek, from Czech Republic and Mr
Sánchez, from Spain.
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