ENG3003 Engineering Management | Wivenhoe dam

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Executive Summary
Wivenhoe dam is the largest dam that has been built by government of Queensland after the
Brisbane flood in the year 1974. This dam has been designed for Brisbane water supply followed
by protecting the city from this kind of flood in the near future. Government has created
Queensland flood commission of injury for modelling of flood and warning system. During the
instance of drought of long period, they have come up with idea of managing dwindling water
supplies in different regions. For achieving this, they have make use of range of rainfall and
water use patterns that are being used for development and analysis from various scenario.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
Body of Analysis.................................................................................................................3
Information Sources used for assisting the decision making for Wivenhoe Dam...........3
Type of Managerial decision making evident and condition for decision.......................5
Classical, behavioral and judgmental heuristics approaches to decision-making...........7
Suitable Model for decision making................................................................................7
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................9
References..........................................................................................................................10
Appendix............................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The following report is all about analysis of case study of “A flood of decision”.
Management of the water supply body that lies in the south-east Queensland gives a perfect
example for engineers that are working in rapidly changing context. They have successfully
being able to manage their own time, setting up priorities and operation of supply and flood
mitigation system (Wang et al. 2017). At the time of extreme weather condition, long period of
drought in seen between the period of 2001 and 2009. In this system, largest dam that is
Wivenhoe Dam was built by the government of Queensland. The dam has been designed on the
point to increase Brisbane water supply and protecting the city from similar kind of events in the
near future. Flood mitigation compartment has been designed for upstream of floodwaters
followed by release of water in a controlled way (Colapinto, Jayaraman and Marsiglio 2017).
This is mainly done for reducing the flow of water in Brisbane River, which ultimately reduces
the downstream of flooding in both Brisbane and Ipswich.
In the coming pages of report, an idea has been provided with respect to different
information source which can be used for proper decision making for Wivenhoe Dam. The next
section deals with decision-making theory which has been highlighted in the chapter. A list of
managerial decision-making has been taken into account for this scenario. The last section deals
with various kind of decision making that are classical, behavior and judgmental for decision-
making.