During routine inspection works in 2006 inspectors found resurgences of water at the toe of a small embankment dam named ″Ribeirão do Gama″, located at Brasília – DF. After technical visits, geotechnical engineers characterized these groundwater leakages as a piping process at an early stage. ...
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