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Tippy Dam or Tippy Hydro was built in 1918, and is a hydroelectric dam operated by Consumers Energy.The original name of the dam was Junction Hydro, but it was renamed to honor a Consumers board of directors member, Charles W. Tippy.
The energy can be dissipated by addressing one or more parts of a spillway's design. [24] Steps. First, on the spillway surface itself by a series of steps along the spillway (see stepped spillway). [5] Flip bucket. Second, at the base of a spillway, a flip bucket can create a hydraulic jump and deflect water upwards. Ski jump
Tumut Pond Dam (/ ˈ tj uː m ə t /) [1] is a major gated concrete arch dam across the upper reaches of the Tumut River in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia ...
The dam and spillway were built in Ashland, a rural outer suburb west of Boston, in 1885 as one of the later elements of Boston's second major water supply system.This system impounded large sections of the Sudbury River, primarily in Framingham, from where the water was piped toward Boston via the Sudbury Aqueduct.
The design consists of free standing blocks (the fusegates) set side by side on a flattened spillway sill. The Fusegate blocks act as a fixed weir most of the time, but in excessive flood conditions they are designed to topple forward, allowing the controlled discharge of water.
A mill dam (International English) or milldam (US) is a dam constructed on a waterway to create a mill pond. [1]Water passing through a dam's spillway is used to turn a water wheel and provide energy to the many varieties of watermill.
The spillway which is of the unique Duckbill type (Morning Glory type) is an ungated structure located in the gorge section with a length of 44 metres (144 ft) which is designed to pass an estimated Design Flood Discharge of 1,450 cubic metres (51,000 cu ft)/s.
Storm water is typically channeled to a retention basin through a system of street and/or parking lot storm drains, and a network of drain channels or underground pipes.. The basins are designed to allow relatively large flows of water to enter, but discharges to receiving waters are limited by outlet structures that function only during very large storm eve