The FHWA has mandated the establishment of a Plan Of Action (POA) for Bridges and Dams. We have developed our POA standard directly from the Scour Critical Bridge - FHWA Revised POA Template for scour critical bridges. This program comprises of data collection, data analysis, and the establishment of a prescribed set of procedures to be followed in case a "scour event" has occurred. The basic parts of a scour monitoring program consist of a theoretical analysis of bridge scour susceptibility, substructure stability analysis, the determination of scour critical depths, analysis of various scour countermeasure alternatives, the design and installation of a data collection and retrieval system and a Plan Of Action should any of a number of prescribed "alert level events" be met