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Article: Dam Rebuild With Roller-Compacted Concrete.(AmerenUE)
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- Midwest Contractor
- Article date:
- July 28, 2008
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AmerenUE determined that the safest and most economical method of rebuilding the Upper Reservoir would be to use an RCC design
In the early hours of December 14, 2005, high atop Proffit Mountain in the Missouri Ozarks, a triangular section on the northwest side of the Taum Sauk Dam Upper Reservoir failed, discharging 1 billion gallons of water in 12 minutes. The failure sent a 20-foot crest of water down the Black River.
Not only was the Upper Reservoir itself destroyed, but neighboring areas also suffered. Fortunately, no deaths and very few injuries occurred in the destruction.
AmerenUE's Taum Sauk Plant was built in 1963 as a ...