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My Favorite Dams - Morris Sheppard Dam

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Morris Sheppard Dam Brazos River, Texas David W. Harris, PhD, PE, F.SEI, F.ASCE Morris Sheppard Dam forms Possum Kingdom Lake.   The lake is located where the Brazos River cuts through the Palo Pinto Hills.     Construction was begun in 1936 and completed in 1941. The dam is 2,700 feet (820 m) long and 190 feet (58 m) high.   The construction is unique with buttressed arched wings on either side of the nine spillway gates rather than the usual filled concrete.   (Wikipedia) The lake is located where the Brazos River cuts through the Palo Pinto Hills. [7] The canyon thus formed provided a favorable site for impoundment of the reservoir and accounts for the unusual depth of the lake and the resulting clarity of the water.   It was the first water supply reservoir constructed in the Brazos River basin. The lake has an area of approximately 17,000 acres (6,900 ha) with 310 miles...
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My Favorite Dams - Bar CCC

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My Favorite Dams – Bar CCC, Parker, CO David W. Harris, PhD, PE, F.SEI, F.ASCE Bar CCC - Today - Ready for many more years of use Earlier I wrote about being at Hoover Dam and the interesting work that would prove to be there.   Dynamic properties of concrete, properties of aged mass concrete, and later helping set up security protocols following 911. So from a dam considered as an Engineering marvel, why a small dam (a bathtub dam) setup to contain a small holding reservoir in the Parker Water and Sanitation District? Well, from a personal level it was my first embankment dam job after I set up my consulting business.   Over 35 years with US Bureau of Reclamation, now applying the knowledge gained.   So that was important to me. For folks interested in dams, this is a good case study in aging and in good dam management. Before - Wave erosion and embankment sliding First, the aging process in embankment dams.   This is a...
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