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A concrete-face rock-fill dam (CFRD) is a rock-fill dam with concrete slabs on its upstream face. This design provides the concrete slab as an impervious wall to prevent leakage and also a structure without concern for uplift pressure. In addition, the CFRD design is flexible for topography, faster to construct and less costly than earth-fill dams.
This is the category for concrete-face rock-fill (CFRD) dams. Pages in category "Concrete-face rock-fill dams" The following 118 pages are in this category, out of 118 total.
The following table lists the largest man-made dams by volume of fill/structure. By general definition, a dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams, hence tailings dams are relegated to a separate list.
Concrete-face rock-fill dams (118 P) Pages in category "Rock-filled dams" The following 183 pages are in this category, out of 183 total.
Mangrove Creek Dam, a concrete faced rockfill embankment dam, is the primary reservoir for water supply to residents of the Central Coast in New South Wales, Australia.. The dam, with a capacity of 190,000 megalitres (6,700 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) and fed by a catchment area of 101 square kilometres (39 sq mi), is operated by the Central Coast Water Corporation and supplies approximately 93 per cent ...
New Exchequer Dam is a concrete–faced, rock-fill dam on the Merced River in central California in the United States. It forms Lake McClure, which impounds the river for irrigation and hydroelectric power production and has a capacity of more than 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3). The Merced Irrigation District (MID) operates the dam and was ...
The dams also supply water for the town of Walgett and generates hydro-power for the national grid. [1] The dam wall constructed with 1,048 cubic metres (37,000 cu ft) of concrete faced rockfill is 66 metres (217 ft) high and 484 metres (1,588 ft) long.
Concrete was injected in bedrock fissures below the dam to stabilize the foundation. [9] Until the W. A. C. Bennett Dam was built on the Peace River in the 1960s, the Kenney Dam was the largest rockfill dam in the world.