Concrete step embankment protection

Hydraulic and earth engineering – Bank – shore – or bed protection – Revetment

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405 21, E02B 312

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055449735

ABSTRACT:
A dam spillway system for embankment dam overtopping protection comprising a layer of free-draining, angular, gravel filter material, a plurality of rows of overlapping, tapered, concrete blocks assembled over the filter material in shingle-fashion, from the toe of the dam, up the slope to the top of the dam, and a plurality of fixed concrete toe blocks located at the toe of the dam, usually beneath the tailwater, and supporting each of the rows of concrete blocks.

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US Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, "Design of Small Dams", Third Edition, 1987, Water Resources, pp. 347 to 364.

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