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CAE MAGAZINE n.19 • February 2021 Tajikistan: Sarez Lake monitoring and early Tajikistan: Sarez Lake PAG. 1 warning systems (EWS) monitoring and early warning systems (EWS) Sarez Lake is located in the Rushon District of the Gorno-Bada- The Region of Apulia: new PAG. 4 khshan province, Tajikistan. The lake was created by a massive landslide and sink-hole landslide triggered by a high intensity earthquake in 1911. The phenomena monitoring landslide created the Usoi Dam (650m high), the highest dam systems in the world, either natural or man-made. The lake that formed Maintenance and PAG. 6 behind the dam initially rose at a rate of approximately 75m/year technological adaptation of and drowned the village of Sarez, after which it was named. The the hydro-meteorological lake has no natural outlet and as a result there is concern that the network of Piedmont failure of the rubble heap dam would have a significant impact of the habitants who live directly downstream of the natural Usoi Lazio Region: green light PAG. 8 Dam. to the evolution Within the framework of the Lake Sarez Risk Mitigation Project of the remote measurement network (LSRMP), CAE and its local partner will be responsible for a com- plete replacement of the current monitoring and Early Warning FOCUS ON CAE | PAG. 10 System (EWS), established between 2003 and 2006, as it is ap- Celebrating the past to proaching the end of its design life. The new monitoring and EWS look into the future: the is expected to protect the 17 villages located along the Murgab Franco Bertolani museum 1 CAE MAGAZINE • n.19 • february 2021 river and the Bartang river and reduce the vulnera- of the triggering events are not mutually exclusive. bility of the population to natural disasters, inclu- The triggering events to be monitored in the con- ding the potential outburst of Lake Sarez. tract: The contract scope includes the supply, installa- l Right bank slide; tion, and commissioning of the monitoring and l Left bank slide; EWS that will enable real time and reliable monito- l Earthquakes; ring of Sarez Lake’s right and left banks, as well as l Lake Sarez level; upstream and downstream rivers for data gathe- l Community EWS; ring, Early Warning System activation and commu- l EWS System, Communications and Data Centre nications with required units. (SCADA); The approach to the early warning and monitoring l Communication center at Sarez Lake and at Du- system was based on triggering effects and the shanbe. concatenation of possible triggering events for the Usoi Dam and the Sarez Lake, respectively. The Sarez Lake monitoring and EWS will be com- The main triggering events considered were a ri- posed of: ght bank slide, an earthquake affecting the dam or l n.4 GPS points: to be used for manual observa- causing an increase in water level in the lake, the tions for the both right and the left bank slide; dam overtopping by a wave due to either a signifi- l n.3 strong Motion Accelerometer (SMA): to cant landslide into the lake proper or a glacial lake monitor seismic activity relating to earthqua- outburst above the lake, and the internal disturban- kes; ce of the dam. Since the 2000-2006 analysis, it has l n.2 Sarez Lake Level Measurements: to mo- been noted that a left bank slide area in the lake nitor water level and wave height by means of has been documented as a primary concern. Most submersible pressure sensor, connected to one 2 CAE MAGAZINE • n.19 • february 2021 CAE Mhaster datalogger and solar power char- l n.1 EWS PC-based SCADA: equipped with CAE ging system; software suite, including DATALIFE, AEGIS, Pa- l n.1 automatic Weather Station (AWS): to mo- trolME, etc. for collecting data from hydrological nitor local weather conditions of Sarez Lake stations, Sarez Lake water level, SMA and trig- with a complete set of sensors including ther- ger alerts to communication centres; mo-hydrometer THS, rain gauge PG2, snow l n.1 drone: for Remote monitoring of sites in the depth sensor ULM30/N, wind speed and di- lake proper and below the dam; rection, solar radiation, and atmospheric pres- l n.1 ADCP and n. 1 salt dilution technique equi- sure, etc.; pment with Surveyors Level: for Discharge me- l n.4 hydrological stations above Lake Sarez and asurements and direct water level readings. n.2 hydrological stations below the lake, mana- ged by 6 Mhaster dataloggers; In addition to the supply of the specialized equi- l n.30 siren alarm stations: composed of fi- pment, CAE will provide a full range of services ve-meter tower with two manually-triggered si- such as project design, system integration, equi- rens, solar power, charging system; pment installation and commissioning, transport, l n.30 portable radio and Sat-phone: for com- testing as well as classroom and on-site technical munication between Sarez Lake and Dushan- training, etc. be Communications centers and downstream CAE will continue to update you over the next few Community siren control centers; months about the project’s developments. ■ 3 CAE MAGAZINE • n.19 • february 2021 BACK TO INDEX The Region of Apulia: new landslide and sink-hole phenomena monitoring systems During 2020, despite the difficulties due to the CO- sink-hole phenomena (Laterza). VID-19 pandemic, the administration of the Region of Among the preparatory works for the implementa- Apulia finalized an important public tender aimed at tion of technologies and the correct interpretation of preventing geological and hydrogeological risk. the data, there will also be fieldwork, such as surveys, According to the resulting contract, signed in Decem- geognostic surveys and installation of an inclinome- ber, CAE has committed itself to supply the required ter tube, as well as geotechnical laboratory tests. technologies and perform the services aimed at in- The project involves the delivery and implementation strumental monitoring of landslide phenomena, on of several technological solutions, to be integrated into an experimental basis. The whole project is for civil a single platform equipped with specialized software. protection purposes and the activities are closely re- Particularly, in the 6 landslide sites considered alto- lated to the forecasting measures performed by the gether, the following equipment will be activated: Decentralized Functional Centre. l 6 complete automatic weather stations, connected The project focuses on 3 landslide sites in the Daunia to the control centre via GPRS, capable of mana- Sub-Apennine (Motta Montecorvino, San Marco La ging the collection of measurements from a signi- Catola and A16 Candela-Lacedonia freeway); 2 repre- ficant number of geotechnical sensors; sentative sites of rock landslides along the coast (Tor l 2 robotic total stations for topographic surveys, also di Lupo and Torre dell’Orso); and 1 site affected by connected to the control centre via GPRS; 4 CAE MAGAZINE • n.19 • february 2021 l 19 GNSS receivers, of which 7 Masters and 12 Ro- equipped with an anti-theft alarm, as well as a theft vers, connected via GPRS to the control centre and detection system for solar panels. in ubiquity with the industrial PCs installed on site. The Control Centre is based in Modugno and will Among the strengths of CAE, in addition to previous be equipped with a complete suite of specialized experiences in the management of this diversified set software, capable of managing all the proposed solu- of techniques and technologies, there is the ability to tions. Among these software, some will be provided automate geotechnical monitoring, both remotely in OpenSource mode, complete with source code, and in real time, thanks to the extensive use of wire- while others will allow mobile access to data. less devices. Specifically, in addition to integrating a The Region of Apulia will therefore have almost 2 large number of weather sensors including the PG10 years of continuous services including installation, rain gauge and the THS thermo-hygrometer, the afo- monitoring, start-up and technical assistance. This rementioned 6 automatic stations implement short period will be followed by a 12-month maintenance and medium range radios (W-Point and Acti-Link) which will be both preventive (with 2 visits per year and thus become the centralizers able to manage: for calibration and setting of the devices), and cor- l 9 automatic deep inclinometer chains; rective in case of need. l 36 piezometric cells; As always, the service is “turnkey” and includes 24/7 l 22 biaxial clinometers for blocks/buildings; remote maintenance and assistance, remote control l 22 wire extensometers for buildings with short range; with help desk and, in case of short-term, urgent in- l 4 level measuring containers. terventions, there will be an on-site operator trained The automatic stations, equipped with Mhaster da- by the company. Manual inclinometer reading servi- taloggers and therefore characterized by program- ce is also provided for the entire period, with a fre- mability, openness and interoperability, are also quency of 6 measurements per year. ■ 5 CAE MAGAZINE • n.19 • february 2021 BACK TO INDEX Maintenance and technological adaptation of the hydro-meteorological network of Piedmont The weather and hydrometric monitoring network the connected transmission system. managed by ARPA Piedmont plays a strategic The company shares the strategic importance role in the control of the water balance and in the that ARPA Piedmont has given to the UHF band monitoring of the buildup of Po river’s floods; it radio communication network, as it can be con- includes over 400 measuring stations to which sidered the only alternative capable of guaran- weather and hydrometric sensors are usually teeing the reliability necessary for a monitoring connected, but also sensors for measurement and warning system for the purposes of civil pro- of snow depth, water and gamma radiation para- tection.
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