Directory of Dams Resources

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Walls to hold back water.

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• California Dam Safety

  http://damsafety.water.ca.gov/
  Reviews plans and specifications for the construction of new dams or for the enlargement, alteration, repair, or removal of existing dams. Includes technical references, statutes and regulations.

• Dam Design

  http://www.dur.ac.uk/~des0www4/cal/dams/
  Features a range of information for undergraduate studies. Topics include loadings, geology, site investigations, and construction. Compiled by Andrew Graham at Durham University.

• Dams

  http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/sijpkes/arch374/winter2001/dbiggs/index.html
  Illustrated project by Diana Biggs, on the social and environmental impacts of large dams. Includes case studies.

• Elan Valley Dams

  http://history.powys.org.uk/history/rhayader/elanmenu.html
  History of the dams, reservoirs, and 73 mile aqueduct of the Elan Valley waterworks in mid-Wales. From the Powys digital history project.

• German Dam Research and Technology:

  http://germannatcom-icold.de/german_research/
  Provides links to publications that show progress in German dam research and case histories where modern techniques had been used. Publications in pdf format.

• High Masonry Dams.

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AGL8574
  Full text of John McMaster's 1876 publication.

• Parker Dam

  http://www.desertusa.com/colorado/parker_dam/du_parkerdam.html
  Guide from Desert USA to the deepest dam in the world, built in the 1930s on the Colorado River. Includes history, photographs and visitor information.

• Parker Dam and Powerplant

  http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/pao/parker.html
  Comment and photographs from the Bureau of Reclamation.

• Tailings Dam Safety

  http://www.wise-uranium.org/indexm.html
  Topics include current issues, safety, dam properties and failures. From the WISE uranium project.

• The Dam Site

  http://members.optusnet.com.au/~engineeringgeologist/
  A range of topics from Richard Woodward, including how dams are built and work, geology, and the environment.

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