The valve and operating system had reached the end of its asset life and the tower was showing signs of structural distress. The wet tower arrangement required a full drawdown of the reservoir basin to allow surveys of the valve, pipework and tower condition. A pro-active silt management system was required to discharge into the downstream watercourse that flows into sinkholes. The paper covers the development of the scheme through to selection of the preferred solution.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.