Foundations and seepage: holding a dam up on dissolving rock

Name: Foundations and seepage: holding a dam up on dissolving rock
Uploaded: 2026-05-19T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 22 min 23 s
Description: Mosul Dam rises 370 feet or 113 meters above the Tigris River in northern Iraq as one of the tallest dams in the Middle East. The dam was built in the 1980s, but, in a way, construction never really stopped. That’s because ever since the reservoir filled behind Mosul Dam, the ground has literally been dissolving, nonst

A section of How Dams Work: The Engineering of Holding Back Water on ArtaQuest.

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