(International Water Power and Dam Construction, March 2004, pp. 32–35).
Construction of a Fusegate system has been completed on a major project that provides additional water use whilst greatly enhancing flood protection in Tulare Country, California, US.Terminus dam is the first line of flood protection defence for the town of Visalia and other highly vulnerable natural lands in California, US. The dam and reservoir, a US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) flood control project, also provides water conservation storage for Kaweah river water users. The project involves construction of the world's largest Fusegates. The Fusegates, which permitted a saving of US$5 million in the total project cost of $50 million, are designed to overturn during a critical flood event to prevent the earth-fill dam from being eroded. The dam was completed in 1962, seven years after a massive Kaweah river flood inundated much of Visalia with a flow of 2400 m3/sec.
Construction, Fusegate system, Enhancing flood protection, Terminus, Earth-fill dam
