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Power Development of Small Streams; A Book for All Persons Seeking Greater Comfort and Higher Efficiency in Country Homes, Towns and Villages

Power Development of Small Streams; A Book for All Persons Seeking Greater Comfort and Higher Efficiency in Country Homes, Towns and Villages


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... into the intake or to get a higher fall of water than the stream naturally affords. To raise the water only a few inches or perhaps a foot or so in some small power developments temporary dams are used, consisting of sand bags placed across the stream, or of bundles of brush weighted or staked down, or of stones and a few boards; These, dams, of course, leak copiously and are washed out with every freshet, yet where only a tiny quantity of water is needed to be diverted to the water wheel they are sometimes practical because renewing them costs next to nothing. These temporary dams may be tossed across a stream with half a thought. The permanent dam must be gone at in a workmanlike manner. It may be of earth, wood, stone, concrete or steel, or of some combination of two or more of these materials. If the dam is of earth, always it must be remembered that the water never can be allowed to flow over an earth dam. If it does flow over an earth dam, just as surely as water runs down hill that dam will wash out. Earth dams always must be provided with a spillway or channel of sufficient size to carry off all excess water. The spillway is placed near the top or crest of the dam, in the center or at either side. The spillway should be lined tightly with boards or concrete so that at no point does the running water come in contact with the earth of the dam as the water flows from the upstream side of the dam, through the spillway and down to the extreme downstream side of the dam. Earth will hold still water satisfactorily, but moving water will wear it away. The picture on page 70 shows an earth dam and spillway. It will be noticed that this dam is very wide at the base and that both upstream and downstream the sides of the dam slope gradually to the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236474315
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236474317
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 86 gr


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