Impacts of Climate Change on the Environment, Increase in Reservoir Levels, and Safety Threats to Earthen Dams: Post Failure Case Study of Two Cascading Dams in Michigan
Climate change has received significant attention lately as it has adverse environmental impacts. Among them, rising water levels in the reservoirs are of key concern for infrastructures such as dams. Dam officials are compelled to reconsider dam safety with the increment in catastrophic floods and...
Main Authors: | Ghimire Sanjeeta N., Schulenberg Joseph W. |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sciendo
2022-12-01
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Series: | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/cee-2022-0053 |
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