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HYDRAULIC FILL

TECHNOLOGY

Haiwee Dam core pool, as viewed during construction in 1912. Note train
delivering quarried fill material, at left

• Haiwee Dam core pool during construction in 1912. Note train
delivering fill material to construct the dam’s shoulders, at far left

• Prior to 1940 most earthfill dams were constructed using hydraulic
monitors to sluice a slurry of fine-grained soils that were piped to the

dam site and deposited without benefit of mechanical compaction