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Yates Dam Case Study - Transforming messaging into onsite barriers to provide a safe environment

Using Yates Dam as an example, this video explores translating messaging into onsite barriers, including physical barriers, which are important in providing a safe environment for boaters. On the Clinton River in Michigan, the trail map indicates a mandatory portage at Yates Dam that, in reality, isn’t really mandatory. A simple search of the internet indicates that boaters routinely run the dam. If the Clinton Water Trail Map states that there is a “Mandatory Portage” at Yates Dam and boaters routinely run the dam, there is a potential problem between messaging and actual behavior. In addition, inexperienced boaters need to be warned of the dam. It is complicated because, at low water, the dam is impassable and not really dangerous. At moderate water levels, it is runable and not too dangerous. However, at high water levels, it is a classic low head dam and it can be fatal. The question is what measures should be taken to warn boaters? Again, there needs to be congruence in messaging. My involvement with the Clinton River involved two cases. Joseph Miranda drowned at Yates Dam on July 3, 1999. He ran the dam once and then ran it again. The second time, he drowned in the hydraulic behind the dam. Almost to the day a year later, Melanie Carlson drowned on a strainer on the Clinton River. The same weekend, the local news reported a high water drowning at Yates Dam. Yates Dam was involved in two of the fatalities. The video emphasizes two issues. First, it focuses on what messaging should be provided in providing a safe environment for boaters. Emphasis is on the portage, portage sign and warning buoys. Again, what warnings and measures should be taken to provide a safe environment? Second, the video focuses on messaging congruence between the Clinton Water Trail Map, “point-of-entry” signs, and onsite measures at the portage.