Services / Water Resources Engineering
Hydraulic Structures and Dams
Control of water by detaining it behind a dam or by diverting it from a watercourse for use elsewhere depends on constructed hydraulic structures in rivers and streams. Hydrosphere's staff has over 30 years' experience designing and managing the construction of hydraulic structures for flood control, flood conveyance, navigation, recreation and ecological restoration. Our projects have ranged from constructed wetlands to new dam design and construction.
Structures to protect urban infrastructure may be completely different in appearance to river restoration structures constructed of primarily native materials, but both require proper technical analysis and design. Hydrosphere has the technical expertise and the practical experience to design and construct these and other structures to achieve the project's safety, functional and aesthetic goals.
- Our services relating to hydraulic structures include:
- Dam inspection, classification and monitoring
- Dam inflow design flood evaluation and routing
- New dam and dam rehabilitation design
- Flooding and dam break incremental damages analysis
- Irrigation headworks, diversions and flow measuring
- Fish separation and passage
- Reservoir dredging
- Dam emergency operation plans
- Inverted and true siphons
- Dam breaching and diversion removal
- Dam break analysis
- Levees
- Bendway weirs
- Recreational structures
- Constructed wetlands
- Natural river features