Following discussions with the Contractor, Owner and Designer, alternate spillway arrangements were considered which required a reduced quantity of excavation. This arrangement could be constructed without any significant excavation of the vertical rock face, but did require lowering the rock in the original alignment by about 3 m.ĭuring the excavation works, it was found that the rock was extremely hard, and with no blasting allowed adjacent to the dam, excavation proved to be very slow and expensive. A Craeger type labyrinth spillway was selected as the preferred option, and taken through to detailed design and tendered for construction. The design then looked at the option of increasing the spillway capacity of the existing spillway. This option was selected based on very limited geotechnical data.ĭuring the detailed design phase when additional geotechnical investigations were undertaken, it was found that there was no rock at a reasonable depth on the left abutment, making the left abutment option very expensive. An options study was commissioned to identify the preferred spillway upgrade, which identified an auxiliary spillway through the left abutment, given the difficulty of widening the existing spillway. In the early 2000’s, the flood capacity was again reviewed with updated hydrology and consequence assessments and was found to be inadequate.
The right hand side of the spillway is a near vertical face of rock, approximately 15 m high.įollowing major flooding in 1993, when the dam came within a few hundred millimetres of overtopping, the embankment was raised with a parapet wall to provide additional flood storage. The original spillway consisted of an unlined excavated channel through the right abutment of the embankment. The dam is one of two dams on Ryan’s Creek forming the storages for the Benalla Water Supply. Loombah Dam is a 13.5 m high central concrete core wall rock fill dam located on Ryan’s Creek, approximately 25 km south east of Benalla, Victoria.
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VIC – Loombah Dam Spillway Upgrade utilising a Piano Key Weir in a tight site Authors: Peter Buchanan, Principal Engineer, GHD Miguel de Oliveira, Senior Projects Engineer, North East Water Chris Nelson, Project Engineer, Hazell Bros Group.
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