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In the author's opinion, the installation of drains by drilling holes from galleries should be considered the only valid and progressive method that makes it possible to install drainage from galleries working from bottom to top as the dam rises, irrespective of the procedure adopted for placing concrete in the dam.
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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 1, pp. 49–50, January, 1978.
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Zverev, V.N. Experience gained with drain installations in the arch dam for the Chirkey hydroelectric plant. Hydrotechnical Construction 12, 80–81 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02304381
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