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    CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDIES Hydrate Engineering Series No. 50 ‘BUREAU OF PLaNniig KIBRARY HYDRAULIC MODEL STUDY FOR THE DROWN PROOFING OF YORKVILLE DAM, ILLINOIS 8y Jeffrey W. Freeman’ and Marcelo H. Garcia? 1 Research Assistant 2 Project Supervisor Sponsored by: Mlinois Department of Natural Resources Office of Water Resources (SRA 95-165) HYDROSYSTEMS LABORATORY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA~CHAMPAIGN URBANA, ILLINOIS May 1996 ABSTRACT ‘Yorkville Dam is located on the Fox River in Yorkville, Ilinois, It is a low overfiow structure (approximately 6 fee high) with a 530 ft wide modified ogee crest. Completion ofthe dam jn 1961 did not include ay tiverbed protection below the dam, As ime went on, the flow plunging down the face ofthe spllvay, as wel as the turbulent forees generated by a hydraulic jump, eroded way the original bed material and created large scour hole. The advent of this scour hole caused ‘he hydraulic jump to become submerged forall tilwater depths and changed the hydraulic bebavior ofthe structure because the submerged hydraulic jump was notable to dissipate the excess energy in the same manner as # normal hydraulic jump would. The mechanism by which a submerged hydraulic jump dissipates excess energy is through the formation ofa roller. Tae uarelenting forces ofthis roller have captured many unwilling victims, and caused many drowning deaths at Yorkville Dam, In 1977, the Division of Weter Resources of the Illinois Department of Transportation (DOT) attempted to remedy the situmtion. They placed large riprap inside the scour hole having ‘equivalent diameters of up to2 ft. After sometime, it appeared that the riprap remediation had not

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