Xuriguera dam
The Xuriguera dam was the gravity dam of the Pantà de la Xuriguera dam , which was built northwest of Terrassa in Catalonia , Spain in 1902 on the Gaià River . It broke on February 24, 1944 in heavy rain during the night and caused a tidal wave with great destruction in which 6 or 7 people were killed.
The dam had been planned since 1897 and was supposed to supply the city of Terrassa and the local industry with water. The masonry or concrete dam was 42 meters high, 165 meters long and built on rock. The reservoir had a volume of 1.1 million cubic meters. Before the disaster, precipitation of 280 liters per square meter should have fallen. Slipping (slipping) of the foundation is given as the cause of the break in the literature . The ruins of the dam can still be seen today.
literature
- Luis Berga, José Dolz: Estudio de la rotura de la presa de la Xuriguera ocurrida durante la noche del dia 24 de febrero de 1944 . Barcelona 1985.
- ICOLD Bulletin 99 - Dam Failures Statistical Analysis . ICOLD, Paris 1995.
- J. Fry: Causes et probabilites de rupture des barrages en europe . COGECH 1996.
- Luis Berga: Failures and hydrological incidents of dams in Spain . 29th ICOLD Congress in Florence, Question 75, pp. 417-430, 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Embalses.net: Pantano de Xuriguera
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Page 57