CE562. Water Resources Management - Dams (ects: 4)

Introduction: Water resources systems - hydrological basins and rivers, groundwater, coastal zones. Evaluation, development, maintenance,  and control of water resources systems. Programming, design, operation, maintenance, and management of water resources systems.
Presentation of main issues in the following areas: Water demand and consumption, applied hydrology of surface and ground water, technologies and water works for water management, physical modeling of water resources systems, forecasting and quantitative / qualitative water analysis. Environmental design for the mitigation, prevention, or solution of practical problems (flooding, salinity, toxicity, saltwater intrusion).
Waterworks for water resources management: dams, ponds, reservoirs, collective irrigation networks, water supply networks, sewerage systems and sewage treatment, flood protection, hydropower plants, energy storage.
Also presented:
(a) issues on coordinated development and management of land and water, surface water and groundwater basins, rivers and the adjacent coastal and marine environment, as well as upstream and downstream socio-economic interests
(b) legislation and protection of water resources, economic, environmental, and social impacts, as well as  policies for the development and management of water resources systems.

Characteristics and hydraulic design of reservoirs. Environmental effects of reservoir formation. Types of dams and best economical and technical choices. Environmental impacts of damming. General principles for design, specifications and construction studies for earthen dams, gravity dams and archer dams. Monitoring bodies conduct earthen dams, gravity dams and archer dams. Failures and events to dams. Risk and safety barriers. Concepts and instructions on the invasiveness and procedures for the control of dams, design new evaluation of existing dams. Types of overflow, plumber, technical and environmental planning. Study and construction works for overflow projects, routing flood and expansion of the energy. River diversion schemes with canals, tunnels and surface barriers. Plumber, technical and environmental planning systems divert rivers. Flow control systems in dam spillways and waterways with weirs and valves. Side overflow dams, dam spillways, weirs, free fall design traps to under damped flow. Environmental impact of construction borrow pits and quarrying, reservoirs and dams.