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Through and Overflow Rockfill Dams

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Advances in Rockfill Structures

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The origins of through and overflow rockfill dams can be traced, in Australia at least, to the Cascade Dam (Fig. 1), built to supply sluicing water to the Briseis alluvial tin mine at Derby in north-east Tasmania (Anon, 1989). It was to enter the annals of history as the only large dam in Australia to fail causing loss of life. However, despite this disastrous beginning, theensuing sixty years have seen the techniques of mesh protection develop to the stage whereflood flows can now be passed over rockfills with confidence, and where such provision isalmost a normal feature in the construction of rockfill dams. These techniques now permit substantial economies to be made in the scale of river diversion works, and even the total elimination of such works in some cases.

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Parkin, A.K. (1991). Through and Overflow Rockfill Dams. In: das Neves, E.M. (eds) Advances in Rockfill Structures. NATO ASI Series, vol 200. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3206-0_18

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