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Almost 100 dams of this design have now been built worldwide since the first such dam was completed in 1962. All asphalt-concrete core dams built so far have an excellent performance record. The type of asphalt used is a viscoelastic - plastic material that can adjust to the movements and deformations imposed on the embankment as a whole, and ...
Pages in category "Concrete-face rock-fill dams" The following 118 pages are in this category, out of 118 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The design calls for an earth and rockfill dam, measuring 70 metres (230 ft) in height and 810 metres (2,657 ft) in length, forming a reservoir capable of holding 269,000,000 cubic meters (2.69 × 10 11 L) of water.
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 ).
Pages in category "Rock-filled dams" The following 183 pages are in this category, out of 183 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aar Dam;
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. [2]: 41 The dam was named for the Hon. Edward Tourtellotte Kenney, then-Minister of Lands and Forests in the government of Premier Byron Johnson. [10]
The Tehri Dam is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River in New Tehri, Tehri Garhwal district in Uttarakhand, India. [1] With a height of 260.5 m (855 ft), it is the tallest dam in India and the 13th-tallest dam in the world. It is the primary dam of THDC India Ltd. and the Tehri hydroelectric complex. The dam ...
Typically, a base or starter dam is constructed, and as it fills with a mixture of tailings and water, it is raised. Material used to raise the dam can include the tailings (if their properties are suitable), earthfill, or rockfill. [7] It is increasingly common for barrier systems such as geomembranes to be incorporated into tailings dams ...