SMALL DAMS PETITS BARRAGES
SMALL DAMS PETITS BARRAGES
SMALL DAMS PETITS BARRAGES
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Fig. 6.3 – Vegetation debris upstream the weir gauge.<br />
Uplift and Pore Water Pressure<br />
It is important to check the position of the water table and how pore pressures are<br />
evolving in the foundation and in the embankment itself.<br />
Measurement devices can be classified in two types:<br />
Standpipe piezometers with a length of slotted tube from a few decimeters to several<br />
meters (Fig. 6.4);<br />
Fig. 6.4 – Standpipe piezometer installed in a borehole.<br />
The open tube piezometers is cheap and easy to read and allows anomalies to be<br />
detected in the foundation (by revealing insufficient pressure drop), or in the downstream slope<br />
(problems of saturation). Given the response time, the open tube piezometer is more suitable<br />
for permeable ground, usually with permeability coefficient K ≥ 10 -5 cm/s.<br />
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