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Technical Manual: Conduits through Embankment Dams (FEMA 484)

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Appendix B—Case HistoriesFigure B-44.—A cross section with a profile of the outletworks and design cross section of Lake Darling Dam.embankment dam. The original design and construction did not include any controljoints with waterstops in the conduits. The alluvial foundation materials beneath theconduits consist of up to 80 feet of sands, silts, and clays, some of which havemoderate compressibility.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service undertook a comprehensive safety assessment ofLake Darling Dam beginning in about 1988. The comprehensive safety assessmentincluded borehole investigations and instrumentation of the embankment andfoundation at representative locations, including the area around the existing outletworks conduit. During the investigations in the vicinity of the outlet conduit, a largeamount of grout being used to backfill an instrumented boring at the downstreamedge of the embankment dam crest was lost into an internal erosion or backwarderosion feature. The grout loss occurred at the estimated contact between theembankment and foundation materials (see figure B-44) at the top of a bentonite sealinstalled at the top of the foundation piezometer influence zone.B-51

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