WSP07325

• File Number: 8443.600
• Description: Narrows Unit - Studies
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 6/17/1977
• Author: Dames And Moore
• Title: Proposal Safety review of Foundation and Embankment Narrows Dam, South Platte River Fort Mortan, Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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meter earth and rock embankment. The project includes two
7.5 meter diameter, 600 meter long tunnels for diversion and
power waterways, a 100 MW power plant and a large gated
concrete chute spi I Iway for a maximum discharge of 4200 cubic
meters/second.

Member and Chairman of the lfiternational Board of Consultants
for the Sirikit Dam Project in Thai land. The Board reviewed
and approved of designs and construction. The Sirikit Project
includes a 109 meter high, 760 meter long earthfi I I dam,
containing 10,800,000 cubic meters of fi I I material. The
project also includes two 13.7 meter horseshoe shaped diversion
tunnels, each 810 meters long; two 8.5 meter diameter power
tunnels, each 640 meters long; two tunnel-type gated spi I Iways
for 4500 cubic meters per second discharge and provisions for
a 400 MW power plant.

Served as a member of a Special Board of Consultants for the
Kremasta Hydroelectric Project in Greece. The project
included a 160 meter high earth and rock fi I I dam with a
crest length of 460 meters and a volume of 8,100,000 cubic
meters. The project also included a 12.6 meter diameter,
954 meter long diversion tunnel; four 5.33 meter diameter,
500 meter long power tunnels; one road access tunnel; a
gated spi I Iway with concrete I ined chute and fl ip bucket for
3000 cubic meter per second discharge, 400 MW power plant.

Special Consultant to Kaiser Engineers and Constructors on the
design and construction of the Dead Sea Dike in Israel. This
dike is 36 km long and contains approximately 6,000,000 cubic
meters of. fi II. Average height about 7 meters; fi II consists
of sand and gravels placed by bottom dump barges. Cutoff was
achieved by the slurry trench method.

Member of Boards of Consultants for Mangla and Tarbela Dams,
Government of West Pakistan; Vermi I ion and Mammoth Pool Dams,
Southern Cal ifornia Edison Company, Cal ifornia; and Cal ifornia
Adueduct, Cal ifornia Department of Water Resources. Also
served as Board member for design and construction on many
other dam projects in the United States, Canada, Brazi I, Chi Ie,
Korea, Indonesia, and Israel.