Water-power; an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water . HABRA DAMFig. 109. fine, and that the lime, made on the ground, lacked Fig. no. The Bouzey Dam,* Fig. 1 10, was situated near Epinal in the valley of the yVvicre in France, being intended for thesupply of the Eastern Canal (Canal de Test). It was com- * Genie Civil, vol. xxvii. p. 281. •J44 FAILURES OF HIGH DAMS. menced about 1878, commenced to fill in November, 1881,.with a capacity of some 250 million cubic feet. It was builtof dressed sandstone laid in hydraulic-lime mortar. Thesp
Water-power; an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water . HABRA DAMFig. 109. fine, and that the lime, made on the ground, lacked Fig. no. The Bouzey Dam,* Fig. 1 10, was situated near Epinal in the valley of the yVvicre in France, being intended for thesupply of the Eastern Canal (Canal de Test). It was com- * Genie Civil, vol. xxvii. p. 281. •J44 FAILURES OF HIGH DAMS. menced about 1878, commenced to fill in November, 1881,.with a capacity of some 250 million cubic feet. It was builtof dressed sandstone laid in hydraulic-lime mortar. Thespecific gravity of the stone was about 2. It was a sandstoneconglomerate of the crushing strength of 295 to 550 tons persquare foot. The dam was 1700 feet long, resting on a forma-tion of the new red sandstone, which was fissured and per-meable. A guard-wall, at the up-stream face of the dam,reached down to solid rock. On the 14th of March, 1884,*water being within 8 feet of full height, a portion of the dam444 feet in length suddenly assumed a curved form, being some15 inches out of line at the centre, though still remaining ver-tical, and there was a sudden increase in the
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