Nichols Environmental Project
Earthen Berm Water Reservoir Design & Construction Support
About This Project
To engineer, design, and provide construction monitoring for the build of an earthen-berm freshwater reservoir having the storage capacity of 242k cubic metres. The reservoir had a maximum berm height of 5.55 m and stored 132k cubic metres of water as live storage. These two criteria result in the earthen berm reservoir being designated as a dam.Unique challenges and how they were overcome: Higher in situ moisture content of the clay soils created difficulty in achieving the compaction specifications. This issue was resolved by a couple of methods.
Project Date
March 2020
Location
Grand Prairie County No.1, AB
Service Provided
Engineering design of an earthen berm reservoir complete with berm slope stability assessments, a berm breach and flood inundation study, on-site construction monitoring and quality assurance, and completion of as-built figures and the construction completion report.
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