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  • “A rock-fill structure might be cheaper, but we can not be sure that this will be the case,” Davis acknowledged to Congress.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • “A rock-fill structure might be cheaper, but we can not be sure that this will be the case,” Davis acknowledged to Congress.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • The Nurek headwork incorporates a unique rock-fill dam with a central core, 310 m in height, a power plant with a capacity of 2,700 megawatts (MW) and a reservoir with a capacity of 10.5 km3.

    Water profile of Tajikistan 2008

  • The Berg River Dam will be the highest concrete-faced rock-fill dam in South Africa.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • Ingeniously, the project engineers used the old Exchequer Dam to raise one of the largest rock-fill dams in the world at the time.

    Merced Sun-Star: front 2009

  • Ingeniously, the project engineers used the old Exchequer Dam to raise one of the largest rock-fill dams in the world at the time.

    Merced Sun-Star: front 2009

  • Older designs outlined a rock-fill embankment dam, 800 to 900 feet tall, in the Susitna Valley and a smaller concrete-arch dam downstream.

    Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News 2009

  • Meeting secretly in a dank cave on a former stream-bed, deep under the rock-fill in a buried Appalachian Valley, the shadowy figures of the nefarious League of Biophysical Reality have hatched a terrible plan.

    Energy Bulletin - dallen 2009

  • The two companies were awarded contracts to build the earthen and rock-fill dams beside the spillway.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

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