Petit Saut
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Petit Saut completed
Particulars
Owner: unknown
Designer: Electricité de France
Contractor: Bec Frères, Dumez, SPIE and others (Groupement d’Entreprises BPS), Ballot, Razel, Chantiers Modernes
Statistics
Type: Gravity
Purpose(s): Hydropower
Reservoir capacity: 3500 m3x106
Height: 48 metres
Length: 740 metres
Volume of RCC: 250 m3x103
Total volume: 410 m3x103
Construction Dates
Start of Project: 07/89 (July 1989)
Start of RCC: 07/92 (July 1992)
End of RCC: 02/93 (February 1993)
End of Project: 05/94 (May 1994)
Country: French Guyana
River: Sinnamary
DMS Co-ordinates: 5˚3'45.39"N, 53˚2'51.28"W
DD Co-ordinates: 5.062608, -53.047577
Facings
Upstream
| Slope | Type |
|---|---|
| Vertical | Reinforced conventional concrete cast before RCC placement |
Downstream
| Slope | Type |
|---|---|
| Vertical | RCC against precast concrete panels |
| 0.80 | Mechanically compacted unformed face of RCC |
Spillway
| Slope | Type |
|---|---|
| 0.80 | Reinforced concrete cast against precast units or slip-formed facing elements |
Placement
| Layers (mm) | Lifts (mm) |
|---|---|
| 300 | 300 |
Cementitious material
| Cement (kg/m3) |
|---|
| Pozzolan (kg/m3) | Pozzolan Type |
|---|---|
| 120 | ROLAC (mixture of flyash and slag with or without limestone fines) |
