Sentence examples for dam seepage from inspiring English sources

As with a concrete dam, seepage of water from the reservoir through the foundation and under the actual embankment also must be controlled in order to ensure safety.

Environmental variables, such as the upstream level, significantly affect the embankment dam seepage lag time.

Lost Lake pore water samples were separated from the corresponding surface waters, and instead plotted nearest to dam seepage water samples (LL1 and LL10; Figure 2, top).

Site LL10 is about 75 m downstream of LL1, just above the confluence of dam seepage water with Lost Lake spillway water.

Examining PCA by sample type, indicates that the tightest groupings of water samples were site replicates (LL8, LL2, LCD-1); these were clearly separated from the mix of Lost Lake water sites (LL5, LL6, and LL12) as well as from the the dam seepage sites (LL1 and LL10).

With the unprecedented rate of mining and mineral processing over the past decade, there has been an increasing level of concern worldwide about the fate of tailings and the irreversible consequences of contaminant release through dust, tailings dam seepage, dam wall failure, or direct disposal of tailings into waterways.

Surface deformation, especially dam-crest settlement, dam seepage-water turbidity and self-potential across the dam crest were selected as the target parameters.

The water travelling around the dam, known as "seepage," is normal in limited amounts, but the gypsum makes it potentially catastrophic.

Granular filters are an essential component in earth dams to protect the dam core from seepage erosion.

When the buried ice within a moraine dam melts or seepage erodes the dam body, the piping channel is expanded and sometimes causes the dam body to sink, eventually resulting in glacial lake outburst.

The dam failed by seepage and piping when the upstream lake level reached an elevation of 934 ~ 936 m and seeped into the upper pervious and blocky carapace layer, resulting in progressive failure and undermining of the downstream slope (Mora et al. 1993).