Merritt Dam: Technical Record of Design and Construction |
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access house acre-feet Ainsworth Canal Ainsworth unit amount of silt amount silt Ash Hollow formation ashy brown buff BUREAU OF RECLAMATION calcareous canal outlet Carpender chute clean compact to lightly concrete conduit construction control house dam embankment damp damsite downstream dry density dune sand elevation excavation Figure gate chamber gray SM holes hydraulic jump inches inlet structure installation intake structure lightly cemented Limit of special load material Merritt Dam Merritt Reservoir MISSOURI RIVER BASIN Niobrara River outlet works control outlet works stilling percent piezometer tip POORLY GRADED SAND RECLAMATION MISSOURI RIVER reservoir water right abutment riprap RIVER BASIN PROJECT river outlet S.P. drain sand blanket SANDSTONE saturated SCALE OF FEET SECTION A-A SILTY SAND slightly silty slope protection Snake River soil soil-cement special compaction spillway steel pipe stilling basin Toe drain Topsoil trace of silt trashrack vertical VOLCANIC ASH water surface Zone 2 embankment