Water-power; an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water . nd a mountain of water appeared, of acolor red like fire frightful to behold, says the record. Thereservoir was empty in an hour, and the dam remained in theform of an arch of some 200 feet span, suspended over thechasm. The water reached Lorca in advance of the messen-ger, who was driven to the hills, and some six hundred per-sons ^\?ere drowned. Fig. 109 is a section of the Habra Dam - in Algiers, com-pleted in 1871. In 1872 several feet in depth of the weiryielded to the pressure of the water, allowi
Water-power; an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water . nd a mountain of water appeared, of acolor red like fire frightful to behold, says the record. Thereservoir was empty in an hour, and the dam remained in theform of an arch of some 200 feet span, suspended over thechasm. The water reached Lorca in advance of the messen-ger, who was driven to the hills, and some six hundred per-sons ^\?ere drowned. Fig. 109 is a section of the Habra Dam - in Algiers, com-pleted in 1871. In 1872 several feet in depth of the weiryielded to the pressure of the water, allowing a great quantityto escape, some 200 000 cubic feet per second, which did littledamage. December 16, 1881, a flood went 8 feet deep overthe weir, and the unexpected pressure caused a portion 360feet long, 50 feet deep, to separate from the structure, liberat-ing a volume of water which drowned some four hundred * Genie Civil, vol. xxvii. p. 268. THE BOUZEY DAM. 243 people, although warned of their danger. It is stated that thestone employed was not homogeneous, that the sand was too. HABRA DAMFig. 109. fine, and that the lime, made on the ground, lacked hydraulicactivity.
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