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Technical Manual: Conduits through Embankment Dams (FEMA 484)

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<strong>Conduits</strong> <strong>through</strong> <strong>Embankment</strong> <strong>Dams</strong>Emergency gate: See Gate, emergency.Emergency spillway: See Spillway, emergency.Engineer: A person trained and experienced in the profession of engineering; aperson licensed to practice the profession by the appropriate authority.Entrance structure: A structure located at the upstream end of a conduit.Entrance structures often include gates or valves, bulkheads, trashracks, and/or fishscreens. Entrance structures are often referred to as intake structures for outletworks and inlet structures for spillways.Epoxy: Any of various resins capable of forming tight, cross-linked polymerstructures characterized by toughness, strong adhesion, and corrosion resistance.Commonly used as a two-part adhesive.Erosion (<strong>FEMA</strong>, 2004): The wearing away of a surface (bank, streambed,embankment, or other surface) by floods, waves, wind, or any other natural process.Evacuation: The act of removing water from a reservoir.Event tree: A graphical representation of a series of events.Excavation: Any manmade cut, trench, or depression in a surface, formed by earthand/or rock removal.Expansion (ACI, 2000): Increase in either length of volume.Expansion joint: See Joint, expansion.Extensometer (ASCE, 2000): An instrument that measures the change in distancebetween two anchored points.Fabric tube (ASTM F 1743, 1996): Flexible needled felt, or equivalent, woven ornonwoven material(s), or both, formed into a tubular shape, which, duringinstallation, is saturated with resin and holds the resin in place during installation andcuring process.Failure (ICOLD, 1974): Collapse or movement of a part of an embankment damor its foundation, so that the dam cannot retain water. In general, a failure results inthe release of large quantities of water, imposing risks on the people or propertydownstream from the embankment dam.400

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