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DAMS Presentation

Dams are constructed across rivers to store water for uses like hydropower, irrigation, drought/flood control and navigation. The presentation classified dams based on use, hydraulic design and construction materials. Key factors in selecting a dam site include suitable foundations, spillway location, available materials and accessibility. Dams provide benefits like clean energy, flood prevention and water for irrigation and drinking, but also have disadvantages like displaced populations, restricted river ecology and submerged lands.

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DAMS Presentation

Dams are constructed across rivers to store water for uses like hydropower, irrigation, drought/flood control and navigation. The presentation classified dams based on use, hydraulic design and construction materials. Key factors in selecting a dam site include suitable foundations, spillway location, available materials and accessibility. Dams provide benefits like clean energy, flood prevention and water for irrigation and drinking, but also have disadvantages like displaced populations, restricted river ecology and submerged lands.

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PRESENTATION

DAMS

PRESENTED BY -
P.Deepak
197Y1A0105
Civil engineering
College-MLRITM
DAMS
⚡Definition –

Dam is a solid barrier constructed at a suitable


location across a river valley to store flowing water.

⚡Storage of water is utilized for following-

🔻Hydropower.
🔻IrrigationWater for domestic consumption.
🔻Drought and flood control.
🔻For navigational facilities.
🔻Other additional utilization is to develop Fisheries
STRUCTURE OF DAM
🔻Heel : contact with the ground on the upstream Toe.

🔻Toe : contact on the downstream side.

🔻Abutment : Sides of the valley on which the structure of the dam rest.

🔻Galleries. : small rooms like structure left within the dam for checking operations.

🔻Diversion tunnel : Tunnels are constructed for diverting water before the construction of dam. This helps
in keeping the river bed dry.

🔻Spillway : It is the arrangement near the top to release the excess water of the reservoir to downstream
side

🔻Sluice way : An opening in the dam near the ground level, which is used to clear the silt accumulation in
the reservoir side.
CLASSIFICATION OF DAMS
⚡According to use –

🔻Storage dam» Gravity dam, Earth dam, Rock fill dam, Arch dam-

🔻Diversion dam» Weir, Barrage-

🔻Detention dam» Water spreading dam, Debris dam

- ⚡According to hydraulic design-

- 🔻Over flow dam» Spill ways-

- 🔻Non-over flow dam» Gravity dam, Earth dam, Rock fill


dam
⚡According to materials of construction-

🔻Rigid dams>>>Gravity dam, Arch dam, Buttress dam, Steel


dam

-🔻Non-rigid dam>>> Earth dam, Rock fill dam


FACTORS AFFECTING SELECTION OF DAM

🔻Topography

🔻Geology and Foundation Conditions

🔻Availability of materials

🔻Spillway size and location

🔻Earthquake zone.

🔻The height of the Dam

🔻Other factors such as the cost of construction andmaintenance, the life of dam,
aesthetics etc.
SELECTION OF DAM
SITE
🔻 The suitable foundation must be available. .

🔻The bed level at the dam site should be higher than that of the river basin.

🔻A suitable site for the spillway should be availablE.

🔻 availablity of materials.

🔻 cheap value of land For dam .

🔻The dam site should be easily accessible so that it can be economically connected to
important towns and cities

🔻Easy availablity of labor colonies


ADVANTAGES OF DAMS
🔻A clean, efficient, and reliable form of energy.

🔻 Does not emit any direct pollutants or greenhousegases..

🔻While the initial cost is high,theyare very inexpensive to operate.

🔻 cheapest electricity generated.

🔻 Dams prevent floods


.
🔻 Dams store water for irrigation.

🔻Many desert areas can now farmdue to dams and canals that supply water

🔻 water for local drinking needs.

🔻 Allows for fish farming.


DISADVANTAGES OF DAMS
🔻. In flat basins large dams cause flooding of large tracts of land, destroying local animals and
habitats.

🔻About 40 to 80 million people have been displaced.

🔻Plants generating greenhouse gases like methane.

🔻 The migratory pattern of river animals like salmonand trout are affected.

🔻Dams restrict sediments that are responsible for the fertile lands downstream.

🔻Saltwater intrusion into the deltas.


.• Large dams are breeding grounds for mosquitoes

🔻Around 400,000 km2 of land worldwide is submerged.

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