Resource
Monitoring of Tailings Dams - Review and Recommendations
Resource Type
Guidelines, Technical Manuals, Reference Books
Reference Title
Monitoring of Tailings Dams - Review and Recommendations
Organization/Agency
International Commission on Large Dams
Publisher Name
International Commission on Large Dams
Year
1996
Document Number
ICOLD Bulletin 104
Abstract/Additional Information
This bulletin concentrates on the difference of approach necessary when considering the instrumentation for tailing dams. Sound advice is given about the importance of seepage measurements and the need for automation to provide continuous records, methods for measuring the position of the phreatic surface, showing the difference of approach from that with embankment dams in this, for tailing dams, vital measurement.
