Projects

Dams
Chile - 1989





Pehuenche Dam


Pehuenche Dam site
during construction of cut off wall


Longitudinal section of cutoff

Plastic concrete cut-off of 1 m thickness and up to 63 m depth installed through alluvial deposits containing blocks of Andesite up to several metres in dimension.
Installation of a grouted cutoff curtain on the flanks of the gorge into rock on near vertical faces.











Depth (m)

Thickness (m)

Surface (m2)








Plastic concrete cutoff


63

1.00

5,100

















Specialities used