Dam of the Anadyrsk Thermal Electric Power Station (Plotina Anadyrskoy Tes)

• Main Author: Kuznetsov,A L
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1977
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Civil Engineering; *PERMAFROST; *EARTH DAMS; USSR; TEMPERATURE; COLD REGIONS; GRAVEL; SOIL MECHANICS; MOISTURE CONTENT; VARIATIONS; CONSTRUCTION; ICE; CLAY; TRANSLATIONS; THAWING; EXCAVATION; SEDIMENTS; FILLING; THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FILTRATION; EARTH HANDLING EQUIPMENT; COMPACTING; LOAMS; TUNDRA; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Plotina; The Toe; Anadyr'; Chukotka; Chukotka Peninsula; Ice; permafrost; Tundra; wedge*
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA047359; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA047359

In 1964, a dam was constructed to supply water to the city of Anadyr' on the Chukotka Peninsula. The dam is 8.5 m high and 410 m long, and impounds a reservoir with a volume of about 1 million cu m. It is planned to increase the reservoir capacity nearly seven fold to meet the increasing requirements of the city and of the thermal electric power station under construction. This will require a dam 16 meters high (24 meters, including the toe), and a crest 1500 m long. The existing dam will be incorporated as the upper wedge of the new dam. The dam will be constructed in a permafrost area with severe climate and harsh engineering and geological conditions. This will be one of the largest dams built on friable permafrost sediment which settles after the soil thaws. (Author) Trans. of Trudy Gidroproyekta (USSR) n34 p88-100 1973, by William Grimes.