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Design and Construction of Embankment Dams

water due to flooding or loss of free board. Despite embankment dams should not be designed to withstand erosive action of water flow over the crest, case histories reveal that inadequate capacity of spillway, that is, insufficient estimation of the amount of flooding has often led to the failure of the embankment due to overtopping.

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