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A centerlined dam has sequential embankment dams constructed directly on top of another while fill is placed on the downstream side for support and slurry supports the upstream side.
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" However, most of the criticism is of the lack of actual special effects work, as most of it consists of stock footage from previous films, including Godzilla vs. Gigan and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, and a few pieces of effects work has garnered praise, specifically a scene where Megalon breaks through a dam and the draining of the lake.
Since Syria built a dam on the Euphrates, the flow of water has been considerably diminished and flooding was no longer a problem in the mid-1980s.
Each country has its own power station on the north and south bank of the dam respectively.
Investments include the expansion of irrigated agriculture to improve food security, the construction of the Taoussa ( or Tossaye ) dam in Mali and the Kandadji Dam in Niger ( the latter has been under construction since August 2008 ), as well as the rehabilitation of the Kainji dam and Jebba dam in Nigeria.
The Pastaza has numerous tributaries, both above and below the hydroelectric dam.
This dam has locks, but they have not always operated well, and the river has been little used from Khartoum to the port of Kusti, a railroad crossing 319 kilometers upstream.
The Dostluk dam, opened at Serakhs on the Iranian border in 2005, has increased available irrigation water and improved efficiency.
A dam on the Río Negro at Paso de los Toros has created a reservoir — the Embalse del Río Negro — that is the largest artificial lake in South America.
The dam has also become a " favorite spot " for predatory fish to congregate, feasting on the salmon that get trapped both above and below the dam.
The Dam Safety Interest Group of CEA Technologies, Inc. ( CEATI ), a consortium of electrical power organizations, has applied Spread-spectrum time-domain reflectometry to identify potential faults in concrete dam anchor cables.
The dam on the Kennebec was removed in 1999 and the area around the dam has been turned into a city park.
A human-made dam in the gorge has created Lake Crowley, a partial restoration of the original lake.
Near Barrage Cavagnac, there is a hydroelectric dam that has created the artificial lake Lalla Takerkoust.
This dam has major contribution in industrial development of Aurangabad Maharashtra.
The dam has created an artificial lake over a portion of the river, called Sapung Lake.
The Cornalvo Dam | Roman dam at Cornalvo in Spain has been in use for almost two millennia.
While flowing from the sluices, coarse material is deposited first and then finer material is deposited ( fine material has a slower terminal velocity thus takes longer to settle, see Stoke's Law ) as the flow velocity is reduced towards the center of the dam.
Due to its effects on the way of life of the rural residents of the Angara valley, dam construction has been criticized by a number of Soviet intellectuals, in particular the Irkutsk writer Valentin Rasputin both in his novel Farewell to Matyora and in his non-fiction book, Siberia, Siberia.
Recently, the Gujarat government has announced its plans to build a 182 m tall statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel near the main dam, which will be the world's tallest statue.
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A tailings dam is typically an earth-fill embankment dam used to store tailings — which are produced during mining operations after separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction of an ore.
Sandbagging of the dam ( which remained intact ) was begun overnight by about 100 people, but the contents of the lake began to pour into the river about mid-morning when the embankment over which the highway ran failed eventually opening a breach of several hundred feet.
The new dam, completed in 1910, stabilized the water level from Boston to Watertown, eliminating the existing mud flats, and a narrow embankment was built between Leverett Circle and Charlesgate.
The dam differs from the other two as it is a clay-cored earth embankment, and not a solid masonry dam like the others.
The Aswan Dam is an embankment dam situated across the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt.
The concrete gravity dam with embankment wings and saddle dikes was designed to control flooding ; to store 1. 4 km³ ( 369 billion US gallons ) of water ; and to generate hydroelectric power ( 102 megawatts ).
By 9: 30 a. m. the downstream face of the dam had developed a wet spot which began to discharge water at and the embankment material began to wash out.
The word comes from the Hindi-Urdu word band, which has Persian origins and meant an embankment, levee or dam ( a cognate of English terms " bind ", " bond " and " band ", and the German word " Bund ", etc .).
The dam is a long and high rock-fill embankment dam.
Garrison Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Missouri River in central North Dakota.
Construction on the $ 300 million dam project began in 1947, and its embankment was enclosed in April 1953.
The cause of the burst was not clear however it was likely that no overflow system was provided and a summer storm caused the dam to overtop and erode the earth embankment.
The eastern embankment dam in 2012
The secondary western dam is a continuous embankment along the western side of the reservoir and is long with a maximum height of.
To reduce the risk of internal erosion filters were installed at the downstream toe of the embankment to control and monitor seepage through the dam.
He described the mechanism of flow liquefaction of the embankment dam as follows:
It is the fourth largest earth-filled embankment dam in Australia by volume.
The Gardiner Dam on the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatchewan is the largest embankment dam in Canada and one of the largest embankment dams in the world.
The larger dam is Gardiner Dam, the biggest embankment dam in Canada and one of the biggest in the world.
dam and dams
In many upstream areas cut off from the ocean by dams, sturgeon simply live upstream of the dam.
The design of dams must also account for the worst-case, " probable maximum flood " that can be expected at the site ; a spillway is often included to bypass flood flows around the dam.
* Several incomplete or badly functioning dams, such as the Bujagali dam ( Uganda ) and Epupa dam ( Angola ).
There are two types of underground dams: a sub-surface and a sand-storage dam.
Conventional water retention dams can serve this purpose but due to cost, a tailings dam is more viable.
Unlike water retention dams, a tailings dam is raised in succession throughout the life of the particular mine.
The locations where timber dams are most economical to build are those where timber is plentiful, cement is costly or difficult to transport, and either a low head diversion dam is required or longevity is not an issue.
Canoeists can contact the dam company and arrange to be towed around the dams on company trucks, but they must make arrangements specific to the hour, and they cannot be late.
In so dry a country, dams and irrigation are extremely important: the largest dam is the Gariep on the Orange River.
Beaver eradication in Tierra del Fuego | Beavers from North America constitute an invasive species in Tierra del Fuego, where they have a substantial impact on landscape and local ecology through beaver dam | their dams.
* The total length of the dam is 7235 m. The crest elevation is 225 m. Itaipu is actually four dams joined together — from the far left, an earth fill dam, a rock fill dam, a concrete buttress main dam, and a concrete wing dam to the right.
Construction of the dam took four years, between 1947 and 1951, resulting in one of the largest dams built in the nation at that time.
The dam, constructed in 1948, is one of the largest earthen dams in the state.
There are four dams on the Clackamas River in the immediate vicinity of Estacada: River Mill Dam, Faraday Dam ( a diversionary dam ), Cazadero Dam, and North Fork Dam.
Sixteen years later the dam was rebuilt to provide water for a series of splash dams that were used to float white pine logs to the sawmills on the West Branch Susquehanna River at Watsontown.
Hells Canyon DamAfter completion of large hydropower dams on the Columbia River in the 1930s through the 1950s, several entities sought approval from the Federal Power Commission to build dams on the Snake River, including a high dam in Hells Canyon.
A much smaller explosive charge would suffice, if it could be exploded directly against the dam wall below the surface of the water, but the major German reservoir dams were protected by heavy torpedo nets to prevent such an attack.
It is a huge earthen dam, rather than concrete-and-steel gravity dams that were attacked successfully.
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