Reservoirs are sustainable only as long as they offer sufficient water storage space to
achieve their design objectives. Life expectancy related to sedimentation is a measure of …

Although the hydrologic cycle is a continuously renewable resource, the natural rate of water
delivery is highly variable. Water is made available to our society on a consistent and …

Reservoirs are important for various purposes including flood control, water supply, power
generation, and recreation. The aging of America's reservoirs and progressive loss of water …

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Despite mounting demand for a more sustainable worldwide water supply system, available
reservoir capacity is relentlessly diminishing due to sedimentation. Neither sustainable …

Reservoirs have traditionally been designed to operate for periods of 50–100 years without
impairment by sedimentation. However, aging reservoirs are now experiencing …

Water storage reservoirs can be either sustainable or exhaustible. In the absence of
sediment management, reservoir storage is an exhaustible resource with long-term …

The 1994 seepage piping failure of IVEX dam, resulting in catastrophic dewatering of the
reservoir, was an analog for the one-step process commonly used for dam removals. This …

A present and future challenge for water resources engineers is to extend the useful life of
our dams and reservoirs. Ongoing reservoir sedimentation in impoundments must be …

Previous reservoir sedimentation models have ignored two key factors for large spatial and
temporal modeling of multiple reservoirs: trapping by upstream dams and decreasing …