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 requir...