Prediction of Embankment Dam Breaching for Hazard Assessment
Downstream hazard assessments for dams require prediction of 1) whether a breach could form, and 2) the hydraulic characteristics of the breach for use in calculations of discharge and...
Roller Compacted Concrete for Embankment Overtopping Protection
In the first National Dam Safety Inventory and inspection performed by the Corps of Engineers, the majority of deficiencies found were related to the inability of the project to retain...
Construction of CCM Overtopping Protection on Three Parkway Dams
Cellular concrete mat (CCM) systems have been installed as overtopping protection on three small embankment dams along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Based on field tests by others and on the...
Economical Solution for Flood Overtopping Potential at Senator Wash Dam
A breach analysis of North Dike for overtopping with the crest modified to the lower elevation was required to ensure the breach discharge would be adequate to prevent overtopping of Senator...
Bureau of Reclamation Experience with Innovative Solutions to Increased Design Floods
Over the last several decades advances in the hydrologist's ability to estimate floods have resulted in increases to the design floods for many existing drainages. As with other dams throughout...
Seismic Stability Modification Requirements for Pineview Dam
Pineview Dam is located 8 km upstream from Ogden, Utah, and about 8 km from the Wasatch Fault Zone. Preconstruction information and construction records available at the outset of the...
Optimum Operation of Recharge Basins
Mathematical models based on nonlinear programming are developed for operating recharge basin systems. The objective of these optimization models is to determine the operation policy that...
Geotechnical Practice in Dam Rehabilitation
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Performance of Three Adjacent but Different Beach Nourishment Projects, Pinellas County, Florida
More than 25 million dollars have been spent on three adjacent nourishment projects extending along 10 miles (16 km) of central Pinellas Country on the Gulf Coat of Florida. The three...
Holocene Sedimentation and Coastal Wetlands Response to Rising Sea Level at the Aucilla River Mouth, a Low Energy Coast in the Big Bend Area of Florida
The shallow dip of the Florida carbonate platform results in low wave energy on Florida Big Bend coasts. Therefore sedimentation is dominated by river-and tidal-hydrodynamics near the...
The Sea Sentinels Project: Watching Waves in Brazil
This paper presents the first results of the Sea Sentinels-a project for monitoring nearshore wave conditions in Brazil by means of visual observations. The observation techniques used...
Managing Beach Erosion in Fortaleza, Brazil
The littoral of the metropolitan region of Fortaleza City, State of Ceara in the Northeastern part of Brazil, has suffered significant morphological changes during this century. There...
Shoreline Erosion Assessment Software (SEASware)
This paper describes the shoreline erosion assessment software SEASware....
Coastal Erosion Analysis of the Belle Fontaine Area, Jackson County, Mississippi
The Belle Fontaine area contains the only remaining natural beach on the mainland Mississippi shoreline. The fine to medium-grained sand beach is the result of erosion and retreat of the...
Physical Modeling of Barbers Point Harbor
Physical modeling is a practical tool in the design of coastal projects. A physical model of Barbers Point Harbor located on the island of Oahu, Hawaii was constructed so that different...
Nearshore Berms: An Evaluation of Prototype Designs
The US Army Corps of Engineers continually seeks new ways to use clean dredged material. In recent years, placement of this material in shallow water to construct nearshore berms has become...
Relationship Between Wave Climate and Performance of a Recently Nourished Beach, Indian Rocks Beach, Pinellas County, Florida
A large beach nourishment project was completed at Indian Rocks Beach on the central Gulf coast of Florida in December of 1990. The performance of the project has been monitored monthly...
Predictability of Beach Nourishment Performance
Beach nourishment projects represent planform anomalies and are generally placed steeper than the natural profile. These disequilibrium conditions induce cross-shore and longshore sediment...
Revere Beach and Point of Pines, Massachusetts, Shore Front Study
This paper describes a study conducted by the Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) to determine the degree of storm protection provided by an existing coarse beach fill at Revere...
Simulation of Beach Fill Response to Multiple Storms, Ocean City, Maryland
The beach fill project constructed over 1988-1991 at Ocean City, Maryland, includes nearshore wave and water-level measurements and high-accuracy beach profile sea-sled surveys performed...
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