Professional paper

Removal (disassembling) of dams and/or barriers on open watercourses

Tanja Roje-Bonacci orcid.org/0000-0002-7123-3421 ; University of Split, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy
Ognjen Bonacci ; University of Split, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy

Abstract

The paper deals with issues related to the removal or disassembling of the existing dams crossing river beds, which were constructed for different purposes, from flood protection, irrigation and water supply to recreation, fish farming etc. This is a process which has globally started long ago and which is very intensive in the USA in the last several decades in particular. In Croatia, these issues are virtually not discussed at all and therefore very little known, and it is evident that we will have to face them as well. The paper describes numerous reasons for which individual dams have to be removed, including the consequences of carrying out these interventions, both positive and otherwise.

Keywords

dam removal; reservoirs; sedimentation; erosion; environmental impacts

Hrčak ID:

166046

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/166046

Publication date:

12.9.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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