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Carlyle Dam, Kaskaskia River, Illinois
The over-all plan for Carlyle Dam envisioned a 50-ft-high earthen embankment with a gated concrete spillway about midway thereof. Tests were conducted in a 1:36-scale comprehensive model which reproduced the spillway and allied structures, a portion of the embankment on each side of the spillway, and about 2200 ft of approach and exit channel. Extreme turbulence and excessive losses at the spillway abutments of the original design were corrected by the addition of a spur dike at each abutment. Adequacy of the excavation plan in the approach area was verified. Data useful in the structural design of the spillway elements and information on which a gate operating schedule can be based were obtained. (Author)
Carlyle Dam, Kaskaskia River, Illinois
The over-all plan for Carlyle Dam envisioned a 50-ft-high earthen embankment with a gated concrete spillway about midway thereof. Tests were conducted in a 1:36-scale comprehensive model which reproduced the spillway and allied structures, a portion of the embankment on each side of the spillway, and about 2200 ft of approach and exit channel. Extreme turbulence and excessive losses at the spillway abutments of the original design were corrected by the addition of a spur dike at each abutment. Adequacy of the excavation plan in the approach area was verified. Data useful in the structural design of the spillway elements and information on which a gate operating schedule can be based were obtained. (Author)
Carlyle Dam, Kaskaskia River, Illinois
A. D. Rooke (author) / C. J. Powell (author) / T. E. Murphy (author)
1961
78 pages
Report
No indication
English
Spillway and outlet works Shelbyville dam, Kaskaskia river, Illinois
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1966