My Tuttle Creek Dam project will appear on the History Channel tonight. The project earned a spot on the show, Mega Disasters: Dam Breaks. Mega Disasters is looking at Dam Breaks and our project will show the positive; mitigating the disaster before it happens. The show will start at 9:00pm central time.
The Tuttle Creek Dam Stabilization is a US Army Corp of Engineers project that HWS is working in conjunction with Treviicos South and Bayer Construction. The purpose of the project is to protect the dam against possible failure. The dam currently sits on a fault line and the experience of a 6.6 magnitude earthquake would cause the natural sands under the slopes of the dam to liquefy (literally become quick sand) and loose their ability to support the dam and send about 425,300 acre-feet of Tuttle Creek Lake flooding into the City of Manhattan, only 5 miles away.
The solution was to build approximately 375 transverse shear walls running the length of the dam. The walls are approximately 60 foot deep, 45 foot long and 3 foot wide. The project has been broken up into 3 stages and we are currently in the final phase of the project, the Main Option. We have completed 32 of the walls and will continue work on the 251 walls till the end of 2009.
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