Beautiful Sunrise over Lake Grady
Welcome to our website for the Shadow Run Dam Corporation. We’re a not for profit organization founded specifically to maintain the integrity of the Shadow Run Dam which forms the northern boundary of Lake Grady in Riverview, Florida.
Located in the center of the Shadow Run Subdivision, the dam provides a place of refuge for all kinds of wildlife with the added benefit of preserving the value of homes that are located within the Shadow Run community. We hope you find the information on this site useful. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to maintain our dam.
Your SRDC Board and Dam Safety
Your SRDC Board works with organizations like FEMA to ensure that the Shadowrun Dam is operationally safe.
Recently we commissioned a survey to determine the integrity and safety rating of the dam.
Key Findings:
- We now have a SOLID Emergency Action Plan (EAP)
- The EAP is a proactive plan to reduce the risk of loss and injury to human lives and property.
- Increasing seepage rates in the downstream toe area
- Sloughing of the downstream embankment
- Surface erosion behind the spillway training walls tht is moving toward the dam crest
- Large Logs or Other debris in spillway that impeded flow.
Because of this and the population growth downstream of the dam Shadowrun Dam was upgraded to a High Hazard Potential Dam
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN:
HIGH HAZARD POTENTIAL DAM – A dam in which failure or mis-operation is expected to result in loss of life and may also cause significant economic losses, including damages to downstream property or critical infrastructure, environmental damage, or disruption of lifeline facilities.
Learn About Lake Health!
It is all our responsibility to maintain the health of Lake Grady.
The concept of a lake’s health is somewhat easy to relate to humans, because they have an idea of what is healthy and well-functioning for humans and what is not.