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 Changes and Challenges Back to top 

Reservoir Safety - Planning for the Future
Author(s): Ian Hope

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The Future for Panel Engineers
Author(s): A.K. Hughes

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Post-incident reporting: the next steps
Author(s): Ian Hope & Allan Warren

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8,000MWs of tidal power in the Severn? Finding the energy/cost/environment/economic balance.
Author(s): C.J.A. BINNIE & P.M. KYDD

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Size matters: plans for the Upper Thames reservoir and the new environmentalism.
Author(s): CS MCCULLOCH

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How Design/Build at Pine Brook Dam Dramatically Reduced Schedule and Costs
Author(s): DEL SHANNON, JOHN F.BOWEN & ROBERT DE HAAS

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 Emerging Knowledge Back to top 

Reservoir safety – long return period rainfall
Author(s): E.J. STEWART, D.A. JONES, C. SVENSSON & D.G. MORRIS

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Just how important is grass cover?
Author(s): MARK MORRIS, LAURENCE BOORMAN & JONATHAN SIMM

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Internal Erosion at Existing Dams: an Outline of a Proposed ICOLD Bulletin
Author(s): RODNEY BRIDLE, JEAN-JACQUES FRY & ALAN J BROWN

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Guidelines from hydraulic model tests on stepped masonry spillways
Author(s): M.J. WEARING, R BAKER, P. MASON & C. WINTER

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Modern Technique for Leakage Detection at Dams
Author(s): A.K. HUGHES

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Developing an insight into the particle-scale mechanisms that underlie suffusion in granular filters
Author(s): FREYA SUMMERSGILL & CATHERINE O'SULLIVAN

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 Monitoring and Manageing Back to top 

The Dambusters Revisited
Author(s): J.L. HINKS, C. HEITEFUSS & M. CHRIMES

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The Discontinuance of Hameldon Reservoir
Author(s): I.G. EDMONDS, C.A. GOFF, B.C. JONES & A.L. WARREN

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Sutton Bingham reservoir sedimentation study
Author(s): Dr J.S.YEOH & A.L.WARREN

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Roadford Dam - 20 years of monitoring
Author(s): J.K. HOPKINS, J.M. REID, J. McCAREY & C. BRAY

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Flood control measures at UK tailings management facilities
Author(s): M. CAMBRIDGE

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A strategy for sustainable construction of lagoons for power station ash disposal at Longannet Power Station
Author(s): J.W. FINDLAY, F.N. McMILLAN & I. McNAIR

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 Risks – Assessments and Actions Back to top 

Dam Safety in the (Somewhat) United States
Author(s): DEL SHANNON

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The use of the “Unified Method of Risk Analysis” on a United Utilities Pennine type dam.
Author(s): M. EDDLESTON, J. CYGANIEWICZ & K. D. GARDINER

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Exercising of Emergency Draw-down Plans
Author(s): DAVID BROWN, KEITH GARDINER & NEIL WILLIAMS

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Dunalastair Dam – Interaction of Risk Assessment and Emergency Response Plan.
Author(s): A. C. MORISON & S. J. KING

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Loyne Dam - Stability Review based on a QRA, Event Tree Approach
Author(s): DR PETER J MASON

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 Spillway Upgrades Back to top 

Upgrading the spillway at Craig-y-Pistyll reservoir using a labyrinth weir
Author(s): J.C. ACKERS, F.C.J. BENNETT, H. MISTRY & J. NORRIS

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Improving Dam Safety: Auxiliary Spillway Design
Author(s): I. J. CALLENDAR, A. K. HUGHES & G. A. CLARK

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Ashford Dam Improvement Works
Author(s): DRUMMOND MODLEY & CRAIG GOFF

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Design of Rehabilitation Works at Ulley Reservoir
Author(s): D. M. CROOK, J CLAYDON, P. KELHAM, R. A. KING & D PHILLIPS

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Blalock Dam and Reservoir Improvement Works
Author(s): R A N HUGHES, R D BOYCE, R R OSBORNE, C E JACKSON & R RHODES

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 Construction of New Dams Back to top 

Engineering issues at flood detention reservoirs
Author(s): A.J. BROWN, D. A. BRUGGEMANN & J. D. GOSDEN

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Cobbins Brook Flood Storage Reservoir
Author(s): S. LEE, J. CASS, S.CORNICK & M. BRADLEY

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Chapelton Flood Storage Reservoir
Author(s): IAN GOWANS, DANIEL MOYSEY & PAUL WINFIELD

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The Wigan flood detention reservoir
Author(s): A.J. BROWN, D. CLOUGH, E. GODDARD & J. D. GOSDEN

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Bengoh RCC Dam, Sarawak
Author(s): A.C. MORISON & Dr J.S. YEOH

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Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme, Design and Construction
Author(s): J. R. SAWYER & J. DU PLESSIS

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Bramhoek Dam – South Africa’s 1st Grout Enriched Roller Compacted Concrete Dam
Author(s): E. LILLIE, M.J.E. NEUMANN & L. VAN ZYL

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Wadi Dayqah Dams: design modifications in the wake of Cyclone Gonu
Author(s): M. J. HIEATT, J. K HALL, M. WHEELER & M. G. RICHARDS

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 Remedial Works Back to top 

Design of replacement vertical lift sluice gate for Kinloch Rannoch Weir
Author(s): R. J. DIGBY & J. P. SELBIE

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The identification and sealing of a leak in the Ardnacrusha headrace canal containment embankment
Author(s): C. FITZPATRICK, T. A. HAYES & S. P. McEVOY

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Underwater repair of a 113 m high CFRD with a PVC geomembrane: Turimiquire
Author(s): A. M. SCUERO & G. L. VASCHETTI

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Remedial grouting works to two dams in Hong Kong
Author(s): D. GALLACHER

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Stability issues at Intake UD
Author(s): A. ROWLAND & Dr C.F. WAN

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