Storage Reallocation in Hydropower Projects of North Georgia
Over the past 40 years, the Corps of Engineers has built nine multiple purpose storage projects in Georgia, with hydroelectric power production as a major purpose. Six of the projects...
Lopez-Angostura Power Tunnel
The Lopez-Angostura Project is located on the Yaque del Norte River in the Dominican Republic near the City of Santiago. A 24 m high dam, a 3.6 km long power tunnel, a pit powerhouse with...
China's Ertan Hydroelectric Project
Ertan will be a major hydroelectric project on the Yalong River in China. The project consists of a 240 m high arch dam, two tunnel spillways, an overflow spillway, mid- and low-level...
Geology Related Construction Problems at the Urugua-i Hydroelectric Project
The Urugua-i Hydroelectric Project in north-eastern Argentina consists of an 80 m high roller-compacted concrete dam, 4.4 km long lateral dike, 800 m long power tunnel, and a 120 MW powerhouse....
Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project Turbine Design
This paper provides general information about this major hydroelectric project on the Parana River on the border between Argentina and Paraguay in South America. In addition, some specific...
Coastlines of Italy
These papers were presented at Coastal Zone '89 the Sixth Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management held in Charleston, South Carolina, July 11-14, 1989. This volume is a...
Coastlines of Brazil
These papers were presented at Coastal Zone '89 the Sixth Symposium on Coastal and Ocean management held in Charleston, South Carolina, July 11-14, 1989. This volume is a...
Sediment Transport Modeling
This is the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sediment Transport Modeling, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, August, 1989. It reviews the state of the art and presents the latest...
Roller Compacted Concrete II
This volume includes the papers presented at the 1988 ASCE Specialty Conference on Roller Compacted Concrete. Included in the proceedings are experiences of roller compacted concrete dam...
Hydropower Development of the Hongshuihe, China
Power is the predominant factor in the development of the Hongshuihe River. The Province of Guangdong is the most highly developed area in the Pearl River Basin, where the fast growing...
Hydro Development on the Huallaga River in Peru
The proposed Chaglla Hydroelectric Project, is located on the Huallaga River in Central Peru, about 300 km north east of Lima. The available gross head of 870 m and regulated flow of 58...
Vilavilani Hydroelectric Project
There is an urgent need to solve the water and energy shortages in the Department of Tacna, on the coast of Southern Peru. The Vilavilani Hydroelectric Project could solve some of the...
Reservoir Regulation in the Monsoon Climate of Korea
An examination of reservoir regulation rules in light of uncertain estimates of river flow in the Han River Basin, Republic of Korea, shows that two strategies will improve total hydroelectric...
Hydropower Development of China's Yangtze River
The Yangtze has eight times the hydro potential of the Columbia River basin, currently the largest developed hydro system in the world. In order to pursue economic development through...
Dongjiang Project and Development of Lei River
Lei River in the south of Hunan Province is a tributary of Xiang River, flowing northward to the Yangtze River. Dongjiang has been selected as the key project to be constructed for hydropower...
Upper Yellow River Projects and Longyangxia Station
The river stretch from Longyangxia to Qingtongxia, with a head drop of 1,465 m in a distance of 1,023 km (including backwater length of the Longyangxia Reservoir) is the focus of this...
Saco Dam?South America's First RCC Dam
Because of cost and a lack of suitable embankment materials, Saco Dam at Nova Olinda in Paraiba, Brazil, was redesigned and built with lean roller compacted concrete (RCC). The structure...
Roller Compacted Concrete Design for Urugua-I Dam
Gravity dam construction by the roller compacted concrete method (RCC) has received widespread interest following completion of Shimajigawa Dam in Japan (1981) and Willow Creek Dam in...
Japan and China: Competition and Opportunity
This paper describes changes in the international construction marketplace over the past decade. Japan has emerged as the second largest international contracting force in the world, and...
Sea Level Rise and Water Resources Management
Sea level rise due to greenhouse effect will create significant impacts on coastal water resources management. Possible future management strategies to offset salinity intrusion and to...
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