Design and Monitoring of Earth Embankments over Permafrost

• Main Authors: Dufour, S., Judge, A. S., Lafleche, P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholars' Mine 1988
• Subjects: Geotechnical Engineering; Arctic; Canada; Contwoyto Lake; Lupin Mine; Talik; permafrost
• Online Access: https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/2icchge/icchge-session5/10; https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1570&context=icchge

As the northern regions of Canada are developed, there is an increasing need to protect the fragile ecology as well as to maximize usage of local construction materials. The construction of earth dykes to retain liquid wastes is a common requirement in municipal and industrial developments. Frozen c...