{"id":8688,"date":"2022-10-07T11:42:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soletanche-bachy.com\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2022-11-09T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T10:42:49","slug":"work-completed-by-nicholson-construction-on-gaylord-dam-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soletanche-bachy.com\/en\/work-completed-by-nicholson-construction-on-gaylord-dam-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Work completed by Nicholson Construction on Gaylord Dam, Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"
October 7th, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>
Nicholson Construction has been awarded by YMCA of the Rockies – Snow Mountain Ranch the restoration of the Gaylord Dam, located in Granby, Colorado.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> Through regular inspections of the 26-year-old earthen embankment dam, seepage beneath the initial key depth at the spillway was detected,<\/strong> along with fractured and highly jointed bedrock. A tracer dye test showed dye appearing approximately 400 feet downstream from the spillway.<\/p>\n Further testing and investigation confirmed the seepage and that a grout curtain within the bedrock below the overburden was the best method for water cutoff<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The dam\u2019s owner, YMCA of the Rockies \u2013 Snow Mountain Ranch, awarded Nicholson<\/a> the contract for construction of the grout curtain, which will total 660 linear feet with 660 cubic feet of grout.<\/p>\n The project included drilling and grouting fourteen holes divided evenly by two rows parallel to and along the dam\u2019s centerline at designated locations along the spillway.<\/p>\n Grout operations<\/a> has been conducted using the grout monitoring system, Grout IT.<\/p>\n<\/div>Solve the dam’s watertightness problems<\/h2><\/div>