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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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