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Failures of Waterworks Facilities and Their Consequences

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The causes of the failure of various dams, the existing approaches to determining the parameters of flood waves caused by dam failures, and the authors' method of calculation of these waves are considered. Characterization of the consequences of the dam-failure flood wave in the tailwater pool of the Volgograd hydroelectric station and some unfavorable aspects of possible evacuation of the Saratov reservoir are presented.

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  1. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetnyi per. 27, Moscow, 109017, Russia

    L. K. Malik, N. I. Koronkevich & E. A. Barabanova

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Malik, L.K., Koronkevich, N.I. & Barabanova, E.A. Failures of Waterworks Facilities and Their Consequences. Water Resources 28, 129–133 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010363230191

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