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Field Visit

Date 2010

Event ID 881947

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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Loch Sloy Dam forms the storage reservoir for Sloy power station (see separate item). The dam is of buttress type with a fixed spillway to the centre and integrated tunnel intake gatehouse to the upstream side of the dam allowing water to enter the tunnel through to the power station. The dam is 56 meters high and 357 meters long. This large dam is of pioneering design, which was first proposed by prominent dam designer James Williamson in a lecture in Washington DC in 1936. The buttressed design represented a significant saving in materials over the construction of a traditional mass concrete gravity dam. This type of dam was increasingly commonly used in the later schemes developed by NoSHEB, under the influence of James Williamson who was the lead member of the NoSHEB technical panel. P L Payne, 1988, 5; E Wood, 2002, 38; J Miller, 2002.

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