Dams, Dykes and othe Hydrological Engineering Structures and Schemes

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On Kate's suggestion.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Not forgetting the Hidden rivers of London and the Hydrological marvel that is the Bazalgette gravity driven sewerage and water system.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

you should have just been watching superstructures on the discovery channel, and hour on the dykes protecting the reclaimed land in Holland - marvellous stuff

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

does Hoover win this thread hands down, or is dat da rockist answer

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Big engineering projects with lots of concrete rock my world. I don't understand the principles behind them, but I heart the pictures.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually this is a great thread to bring up a marvelous but failed scheme dreamed up by Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli to divert the Arno away from Pisa, starving it of water and giving Florence a sea port. it would have worked as well if Leonardo had been allowed to oversee the project but politics got in the way and less skilled engineers were assigned to the task.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, it's a new thread. Whoops!

Bazalgette gravity sewage system probably gets my vote.

Though the medieval dam/dyke system that reclaimed most of Eastern Kent (wot was on that archeology programme the other day) was pretty darn cool! Considering it was MEDIEVAL, and also fighting the sands of time...

(Also, I was interested to find out that the Winchelsea that I know today was actually originally several miles out to sea and drowned, and the current town is a medieval New Town.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:NAGH07BLPoMC:www.wcsscience.com/giant/pic07.gif

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The 3 Gorges project has lots of concrete. It would rock my world more if it wasn't for lots of environmental concerns.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry

http://www.wcsscience.com/giant/pic07.gif

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, but the environmental not to mention archeological concerns of 3 Gorges!

Hence why the fun-hating and archeology-destroying Anwar Dam (sp?) does not get my vote.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

aswan dam

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

aswan dam in action

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gavin.egypt/images/31a11.jpg

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the one.

::Cries::

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

If you want to make an omelette, you gotta break a few eggs.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but considering the number of hens in the world, there gotta be 30 billion eggs in China alone. Pyramids and ancient monuments are a bit rarer. Unless you live in Wiltshire, where you can't leave your driveway without tripping over a barrow or something.

(Back in the Iron Age, how the Celts complained when their neighbours dammed up the Kennet river...)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been image googling because I don't know enough cool damns. So I will post some for you to admire.

A random dam in Arizona:

http://pic.templetons.com/brad/pano/midpano/gc-dam-tall.jpg

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

A Japanese dam which is pretty and blue:

http://www.awaji-navi.jp/en/sightseeing/midori/dam.jpg

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ladybower Dam - Neo Castle

http://www.images-of-britain.freeserve.co.uk/ce/ce00009.jpg

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The curvature of the Hoover Dam, which rather gives me a headache from the vertigo...

http://www.firelily.com/stuff/hoover/image/dam.curvature.jpg

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Dykes? Hubba hubba!

(So much for Kate's no-sexo threads. Ha ha ha ha ha! {/maniacal laughter})

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the kind of Dyke-ing up I heartily approve of!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.britishdams.org is being very helpful!

http://www.britishdams.org/images/shaft_Ladybower.jpg

That's a SHAFT from a Ladydam. Ooooh.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I was looking for a picture of the shaft spill way not that i knew what it was called but they are very pretty and a clever way of keeping large flotsam out of the innards.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you know there are four main different types of dam in use in England today:

Arch dams
Buttress dams
Embankment dams
Gravity dams

The British Dam Society site is really cool!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course when talking of dams one has to talk of beavers

http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/beaver/icons/photo3.gif
http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/beaver/icons/beaver.jpg

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't want to KNOW what comes up when you image Google "Dutch dykes"...

But here is one. 4REAL.

http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~echi/journal/2000-05-europe/NothernNetherland14-long-dam.jpg

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Best thread ever.

I have had so much fun here.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed, best Ed thread in a long time!

(I am happy to see that the Milenniuum Dome was not included in their list of Dome superstructures.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Engineering porn - classic or classic?

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

HE WHO STEMS THE TIDE IS WEIGHTIER THAN THE MOON

― Phil Osopher (Johnney B), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Folsom Dam: WHEN DAMS GO BAD!!!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/images/folsom2_dam_1.jpg

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

No mention of the semi evil to evil Quebec damms up north?

Bah, Acadians had modest damms along the shore of the Bay of Fundy. At the end and start of the season they used to open it up and the bay would replenish the soil and till it for free. Sadly they are in a sad state but NS and NB governments are finally restoring them in some areas. 10 meter tides and agriculture rolled into one.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Only Superman can save them now...

― Lex Luther (daveb), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

don't make you damns from recycled out of town shopping centres would be my advice there.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Check out the Itaipu Dam:

http://www.olade.org.ec/capacitacion/images/itaipu.jpg

Now that is impressive!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Worlds Tallest masonry dam, not bad for bricks

http://www2.gol.com/users/harasho/nagarjunasagar-dam.jpg

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooooh, MASONRY!!! Oh wait, not that kind of Masonry. Boo.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Wold's tallest is the Rogun in Tajikistan at 335m tall

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/retom/Graphics/NurekDam2000_2.gif

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, pretty.

― cis (cis), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the way the intercepting mountain range looks like a curled dragon's tail...

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It's also in my favorite part of the world.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I cannot find a picture of it, and it was hugely controversial becuase of how it interferred with native land claims, but the Old Man River Dam in Southern Alberta is this wonderful edifice that seems to come from nowhere

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Dams in Upper New York State, a map:

http://lowergreatlakes.fws.gov/Programs/images/great-lakes-dams-small2.jpg

Wow, there sure are a lot of them!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew this would be an Ed thread.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this your dam, Anthony?

http://www.groupsci.com/images/ORD1.jpg

There are enlargements here.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

My local dam/resevoir. A bit lacking in water at the moment.

http://www.aozj96.dsl.pipex.com/codbeck2.jpg
http://www.aozj96.dsl.pipex.com/codbeck3.jpg

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.expatica.com/www/upload_pix/ijburg.gif

http://www.expatica.com/www/upload_pix/http://archweb.arch.virginia.edu/archive/tv/ijburg/group/bbt/01.jpg

http://homepages.compuserve.de/DrLudgerFischer/Ijburg-1.jpg

http://www.classic.archined.nl/offline/kiosk/boeken/recensies/jaarboek_landschap.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.pearlgifts.bizland.com/lxdamflask.jpg

I used to fish here

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

More, please!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 13 November 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Hoover Dam as seen by Annouschka and I a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.quartzcity.net/albums/2003lasvegas/IMG_0665.sized.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 13 November 2003 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The San Francisquito Dam north of Los Angeles as seen before

http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/deptweb/SkinnyCalSites/TrnsverseRng/CastaicBlock/SnFrancisquito/StFrancisDam/sfdam.jpg

and then after it's collapse in 1928

http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/deptweb/SkinnyCalSites/TrnsverseRng/CastaicBlock/SnFrancisquito/StFrancisDam/wingandAsfd.jpg

Anywhere from 500 to possibly 2000 people were killed in the flood from the collapse.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 13 November 2003 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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