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INTERNAL EROSION OF EXISTING DAMS, LEVEES AND DIKES, AND THEIR FOUNDATIONS / L'EROSION INTERNE DANS LES BARRAGES ET DIGUES EN EXPLOITATION ET LEUR FONDATION
Case histories, Investigations, Testing, Remediation and Surveillance / Études de cas, Reconnaissances, Essais, Réparation et Surveillance
ICOLD Bulletin 164 Volume 2 presents case histories of internal erosion failures and incidents, and advises on the investigations, sampling and testing that can be used to provide the data needed to carry out analyses of the vulnerability of dams and levees to internal erosion. It also advises on remediation, if analyses have demonstrated that it is necessary, and on surveillance and monitoring systems to check and confirm the continuing ability of the dam to resist internal erosion in the long-term.
The Working Group on Internal Erosion has brought together experts from all continents at annual meetings and their work provides the basis for most of Volume 2. Information on case histories has been most generously provided by owners and engineers, recognizing that such information will contribute to preventing tragic events in future. The work of specialists in laboratory testing and geophysics who have contributed actively to the Working Group over many years is now accessible to dam engineers in the chapters on investigations and monitoring in ICOLD Bulletin 164 Volume 2.