Dams are essential to society, yet have tremendous environmental impacts, for which there is an increasing interest in mitigation. At the same time, sedimentation threatens sustainability of reservoir storage and functions. We use term dam renovation encompass a wide range measures, including rehabilitation, commonly used structural retrofits, typically structure or spillway, fishway retrofits ...

Bioavailable water concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and organochlorine pesticides (OCP) were measured in the water column from Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) collected in May 2008 using semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs). The sampling sites spanned the whole reservoir from the upstream Chongqing to the great dam covering more than 600 k...

abstract area-reduction method is one of the most common experimental methods that determines the sediment distribution in reservoirs. in this method, reservoirs are geometrically divided into four types. for all reservoir types, parameters are achieved based on a limited number of reservoirs which leads to large scale errors for prediction of this method. so suitable parameters can be achieved...

numerical analysis of the dam-reservoir systems including fluid-structure interaction, by finite element method has some complexities especially for the semi-infinite reservoirs. however, similar to the other fem program the ansys is included some difficulties in the modeling of the semi-infinite domains, such as the dam reservoirs. in this paper a new method is proposed to remedy this problem....

Over the past half century, a surprising number of major pollution incidents occurred due to tailings dam failures. Most previous studies of such incidents comprised forensic analyses of environmental impacts after a tailings dam failure, with few considering the combined pollution risk before incidents occur at a watershed-scale. We therefore propose Watershed-scale Tailings-pond Pollution Ris...

reservoir dams are among the main storage systems employed in agriculture for the several past decades. proper operation of these reservoirs is important for irrigation espe-cially in such arid and semi-arid areas like iran, and particularly during dry years. a computational framework for reservoir simulation and flood routing is hereby presented. a key aspect of the reservoir simulation is the...

Agricultural and fisheries activities around the watershed of an African tropical reservoir (Oyun reservoir, Offa, Nigeria) were found to contribute significantly to water quality deterioration of the dam axis of the reservoir, leading to eutrophication of that part of the reservoir. This is evident from the high amount of nitrate (6.4 mg/l), phosphate (2.2 mg/l) and sulphate (16.9 mg/l) in the...