Sentences with phrase «spillway as»
Options to consider could include, for example, constructing a dry spillway as a backup outlet, or installing a second modern drainage tunnel that would provide redundancy and flexibility.
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North of Sacramento, more than 188,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes as the Oroville Dam overflowed, eroding a giant crater into its spillway and threatening to release one of the state's biggest reservoirs.
Opponents must dodge the floodwaters in «Hydro» as they contend for dominance of this hydroelectric dam facility in Pakistan, filled with treacherous spillways.
While in the Peace Corp, Rich helped dozens of villages, in Sakolnakorn Province, design and build infrastructure projects such as small dams and spillways.
The USBR had computer dam failure models in the 70's; these should be invaluable in evaluating the failure of either emergency spillway or the main; as they considered the strength of the underlying material.
«to require that the dam's emergency spillway be armored with concrete rather than remain as just a hillside»?
For the dam case, remediation is in progress as more concrete is poured and no doubt engineering has incorporated the need for more skill in spillway design.
``... A component of this (DSOD) inspection is to verify spillways are unobstructed and fully functional... Because of the extremely sensitive nature of a dam - damage scenario, the selection of a particular dam to imagine as hypothetically damaged in such a way is left to emergency planners.»
The hardening of the downslope of the emergency spillway may not have worked (the weight of the spilled water wiped out a road on the downslope and may have just wiped out any concrete hardening of the slope as well).
This methane can be emitted to the atmosphere in several ways: either as bubbles or by diffusion through the surface of the reservoir itself, or it can be emitted as the water is drawn from deep in the reservoir to pass through the turbines or spillways.
Measurements of GHG emissions from drawdown zones, downstream river reaches, wood decomposition, as well as spillways and turbines are currently too limited and / or too poorly constrained to meaningfully include in analyses of the controls and magnitude of reservoir GHGs.
As that water moves through spillways, that methane is released into the atmosphere.