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“A rock-fill structure might be cheaper, but we can not be sure that this will be the case,” Davis acknowledged to Congress.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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“A rock-fill structure might be cheaper, but we can not be sure that this will be the case,” Davis acknowledged to Congress.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The Nurek headwork incorporates a unique rock-fill dam with a central core, 310 m in height, a power plant with a capacity of 2,700 megawatts (MW) and a reservoir with a capacity of 10.5 km3.
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The Berg River Dam will be the highest concrete-faced rock-fill dam in South Africa.
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Ingeniously, the project engineers used the old Exchequer Dam to raise one of the largest rock-fill dams in the world at the time.
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Ingeniously, the project engineers used the old Exchequer Dam to raise one of the largest rock-fill dams in the world at the time.
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Older designs outlined a rock-fill embankment dam, 800 to 900 feet tall, in the Susitna Valley and a smaller concrete-arch dam downstream.
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Meeting secretly in a dank cave on a former stream-bed, deep under the rock-fill in a buried Appalachian Valley, the shadowy figures of the nefarious League of Biophysical Reality have hatched a terrible plan.
Energy Bulletin - dallen 2009
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The two companies were awarded contracts to build the earthen and rock-fill dams beside the spillway.
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