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August 2017
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Research Article| August 01 2017

Technical site visit: Hampstead Heath ponds project – London

David Henthorn Brown, BSc, CEng, FICE
David Henthorn Brown, BSc, CEng, FICE
Principal Reservoir Engineer
Canal & River Trust, Warwick, UK (david.brown@canalrivertrust.org.uk)
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1756-8404
Print ISSN: 1368-1494
ICE Publishing: All rights reserved
2016
Dams and Reservoirs (2017) 27 (2): 84–86.
https://doi.org/10.1680/jdare.16.00047

The City of London and BAM Nuttall hosted a British Dam Society visit to reservoir works being carried out on Hampstead Heath on 12 July 2016. Those attending were shown how a significant risk of flooding from reservoirs was being successfully addressed in a very sensitive landscape.

Keywords: dams, barrages & reservoirs, geotechnical engineering, hydraulics & hydrodynamics
ICE Publishing: All rights reserved
2016
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