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Spillway & Types of Spillways: Ashlin T V

Spillways are structures constructed to provide safe release of flood waters from a dam to a downstream are, normally the river on which the dam has been constructed.

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Spillway & Types of Spillways: Ashlin T V

Spillways are structures constructed to provide safe release of flood waters from a dam to a downstream are, normally the river on which the dam has been constructed.

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SPILLWAY

&
TYPES OF SPILLWAYS

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Spillway:

Spillways are structures constructed to


provide safe release of flood waters from a
dam to a downstream are, normally the
river on which the dam has been
constructed.

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Requirements:

☻Should able to pass the designed flood


without raising the reservoir level above
H.F.L.
☻Should provide structural stability to the
dam under all conditions of flood.
☻Section of spillway should be economical.
☻Operation of spillway should be efficient.
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Types of spillways:
☻Overflow spillway
☻Chute spillway
☻Side channel spillway
☻Saddle spillway
☻Emergency spillway
☻Shaft spillway
☻Siphon spillway

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Overflow spillway:
☻Also called ogee-shaped (S-shaped) spillways.
☻This type of spillways allows the passage of the flood
wave over its crest (which is S-shaped).
☻Widely used on Gravity dams, Arch dams, and
Buttress dams.
☻Reduce the impact of water at downstream.
☻Reduce scouring.
☻Used for small concrete dams.
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Chute spillway:
☻ Discharge is conveyed from the reservoir to
the d/s through an open channel.
☻ Profile is influenced by site topography.
☻ Used for earth fill dam
☻ Crest of spillway is kept normal to its centre
line.

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Side channel spillway:

☻ It is used when dam is not rigid and it is


undesirable to pass flood water over the dam.
☻ After passing crossing over the spillway rest,
water flows parallel to the crest.

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Saddle spillway:
☻ Constructed when other types of
spillways are not favourable.
☻ There may be some natural depressions
on the periphery of the reservoir basin away
from the dam.

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Emergency spillway:
☻ Rarely used.

☻ Extra spillways provided on a project in


case of emergency.

☻ Used to convey frequently occurring


outflow rates.

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Shaft spillway:
☻ The shape is just like a funnel.
☻ Water drops through a vertical shaft to a
horizontal conduit that conveys the water past
the dam.
☻ Also called as glory hole spillway.

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Siphon spillway:
☻ Designed by the principle of siphon.
☻ When water rises over FRL then water start
spilling.
☻ There is an air vent for removing the
entrapped pressure from the water.

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Thank you
☺☻

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