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This document is provided by the Colorado Division of Water Resources (DWR) Dam Safety Branch (DSB) as a technical guide for the engineering community involved with the design and construction of dams under the Colorado Revised Statutes (CRS) and the Rules and Regulations for Dam Safety and Dam Construction (Rules). This Project Review Guide is not intended to instruct engineers on how to design and construct dams. Engineers working on dams in Colorado...
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02/06/2018
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How rivers have shaped American politics, economics, and society from the beginnings of the Republic to today.America has more than 250,000 rivers, coursing over more than 3 million miles, connecting the disparate regions of the United States. On a map they can look like the veins, arteries, and capillaries of a continent-wide circulatory system, and in a way they are. Over the course of this nations history rivers have served as integral trade routes,...
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2010.
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This guidance document has been created to provide a technical guide for dam safety engineers and the engineering community involved with the design of dams and safety evaluation of existing dams under the Colorado Revised Statutes and the "Rules and Regulations for Dam Safety and Dam Construction (DWR, 2007)" The considerations and guidelines described herein are intended to establish consistency in the analysis and review of dam safety projects...
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1986.
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The 1983 session of the Colorado General Assembly passed House Bill 1102 authorizing the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) to conduct a geotechnical study of dam sites in the White River Basin. The objective of the White River Geotechnical Study was to carry out surficial and sub surface geotechnical investigations of the designated dam sites and to locate and evaluate potential sources of construction material. The level of topographic data...
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