Displaying Items By Tag: Reservoir
News on reservoir
China's Three Gorges Dam under pressure: Flood hazard downstream
- Jul, 28, 2020
- Dam Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- China, Yichang Shi
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
As China has been devastated by heavy rainfalls, the Three Gorges Dam is under heavy flood pressure. The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam situated in the Yangtze River in Hubei province, China...
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Water storage after fracking related to seismic hazard
New study shows that the storage of water produced from oil and gas exploitation using hydraulic fracturing is correlated with earthquake hazard. Petroleum industry produces about 10 times mor...
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Calaveras dam in San Francisco Bay Area is finally finished
Calaveras Dam, the larger dam built in Bay Area in 20 years, is finally completed. The 220-foot tall dam is located in the area east of Interstate 680 on the Alameda-Santa Clara County. Being...
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[Video]: Watch a civil engineer's display on dams for elementary school Career Day!
Grady Hillhouse, a civil engineer specialized in dams and large hydraulic structures, prepared a display for an elementary school Career Day to explain the basic principles of dam function! Watch the...
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Challenges encountered in dam removal and underwater valley restoration projects
- Apr, 16, 2014
- News On Projects / Industry Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Dam Engineering
- 37.9392146, -119.7115365
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Built in 1913 to provide the earthquake-devastated San Francisco with fresh water, the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir has given rise to significant political dispute over decades, with environmentalists...
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