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Chute Spillway

A chute spillway conveys water from a reservoir through an open channel placed along a dam or through a saddle to downstream levels. It has been used with earth-fill dams and can be provided separately from gravity dams when the main valley is narrow. Chute spillways are lighter and can be adapted to different foundations, making them suitable for earth and rock fill dams. They typically include an entrance channel, control structure, discharge channel, terminal structure, and outlet channel, and can have either straight or curved design elements to fit the surrounding topography.

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Chute Spillway

A chute spillway conveys water from a reservoir through an open channel placed along a dam or through a saddle to downstream levels. It has been used with earth-fill dams and can be provided separately from gravity dams when the main valley is narrow. Chute spillways are lighter and can be adapted to different foundations, making them suitable for earth and rock fill dams. They typically include an entrance channel, control structure, discharge channel, terminal structure, and outlet channel, and can have either straight or curved design elements to fit the surrounding topography.

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Chute (Open Channel/Trough)

Spillway
 A spillway whose discharge is conveyed from the reservoir
to the downstream river level through an open channel,
placed either along a dam abutment or through a saddle,
might be called a chute, open channel, or through type
spillway.
 The chute spillway has been used with earth-fill dams.
Sometimes, even for gravity dams, a separate spillway is
required because of the narrowness of the main valley. In
all such circumstances, a chute spillway is provided.
 It is lighter and adaptable to any type of foundations and
hence provided easily on earth and rock fill dams.
 Chute spillways ordinarily consist of an entrance
channel, control structure, a discharge channel, a
terminal structure, and an outlet channel.
 The simplest form of chute spillway has a straight
centerline and is of uniform width.
 Often, either the axis of the entrance channel or that
of a discharge channel must be curved to fit
alignment to the topography

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