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Dam Safety: Mullapperiyar and its implications
The probability of failure (or vulnerability) of a dam depends on many factors: Spillway capacity; Seismic resistance; Nature of the foundations (a dam founded on bed rock is less vulnerable ... years. The spillway capacity is very important from the point of dam safety for as many as 50 per cent of dam failures in the World1 had resulted from inadequate capacity of the ...
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Roy's Home Page: Mullapperiyar-- Issues of Dam Safety
The probability of a dam failure depends on many factors such as spillway capacity, seismic resistance, nature of foundation, quality of design and construction, monitoring and maintenance and a ... the Mullapperiyar dam. The PMF of Mullapperiyar basin is 6003 cumecs while the maximum spillway and outlet capacity provided at Idukki reservoir is only 5100 cumecs. This mean that a big ...
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Living Rivers Grand Canyon Campaign
Clean Energy Glen Canyon Dam has the capacity to provide just three percent of the energy used in the Southwest. The deterioration of ... Colorado River nearly spilled over the top of Glen Canyon Dam and the dam's spillway tunnels nearly collapsed. Described as a once-in-25-year flood event, this scenario is ...
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Pacific Hydro - Victorian Hydro Projects
Their combined output has avoided the release of more than 500,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere. Capacity 9.9MW ...
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Niagara Falls History of Power
The surge tanks serve to reduce fluctuations in head and pressure ... to refit generators with plans to increase efficiency and power generation capacity. Ontario Power Generation has reached its maximum diversion capacity. It is likely that Ontario Power Generation will construct a third ...
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Platte River Endangered Species Partnership(PRESP)
Pathfinder Reservoir by approximately 54,000 acre-feet to recapture storage space lost to sediment. The modification would be accomplished by raising the elevation of the existing spillway ... with the Bureau of Reclamation, the remaining 20,000 acre-feet of the modification capacity to provide municipal water to North Platte communities in Wyoming through contracts between the ...
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Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion Project
Plaquemines parishes; landowners; shrimpers (2); oyster fishermen and recreational fishermen. "While Davis Pond's capacity is almost as large as the annual flow of the Pontomac River, which averages 11 ... project, the Bonnet Carr Freshwater Diversion Project, which would be built at the Bonnet Carr Spillway, a Corps flood-control project on the Mississippi’s east bank 33 river miles above ...
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ON NATURE Magazine
All reasonable alternatives that is, rail, road, transit and marine to add capacity to the transportation corridor that links Niagara to the GTA are being examined. The ... , the Greenbelt and other lands designated environmentally sensitive. The Medad Valley, a narrow glacial spillway gorge that cuts deeply across the escarpments Mount Nemo bend, broadens into extensive ...
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Pastures of Plenty | Matt Rasmussen | Orion magazine
When a reservoir is filled to capacity, they say it’s at “full pool.” The engineers don’t use the ... of water that emerges from an orifice halfway down the dam’s otherwise dry spillway, the night is devoid of the sound of water. This river doesn’t make any ...
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