Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- The dewatering of a damsite - in a river bed confined between the precipitous cliffs of a narrow gorge and with a normal flow of 8000 cusecs, and average velocity 10 feet per second.
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 1, no. 5, May 1929, pp. 171-183
- Description
[This paper was one of two jointly awarded the Warren Memorial Prize 1929.]
- Abstract
Whereas the construction of big dams can rarely be otherwise than attended by unusual problems, the methods employed in the construction of the dams themselves have been so well recorded that one finds a fund of information. Very often, however, one of the most difficult problems is that of dewatering the streambed and rendering the site accessible to such a degree that the work in the foundations will be sound and reasonably low in cost. In this latter regard it cannot be said that all records give the detailed information of difficulties and their solution that would often prove so helpful, and as a result the construction engineer is often forced into employing more systems of trial and error than would be the case if he had fuller records to which to refer.
In this paper the author's object has been to describe the work attendant upon dewatering one particular damsite. It is realised that the circumstances surrounding the case may not arise again for many years, but an endeavour has been made to treat with the subject under various headings in the hope that, in part at least, the record may be of value to construction engineers.