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For further details, please contact Ray Bilbow in SMEC Cooma Office 1. Task 15: Overseas Study Tour for Senior Management (Optional) - Cost not included in the Fee Proposal Task 15.1- Purpose of the Study Tour (TECH-3) The purpose of the “Overseas Study Tour of Senior Managers / Engineers” is to expose to managerial level experts in developed countries such as Australia, USA, UK etc. Under “Transfer of Technology (ToT)” for senior managers and engineers, SMEC has successfully conducted “Study Tours” for its Clients in various countries, including; • China • Vietnam • Indonesia • Thailand • Malaysia • India • Kenya • Mongolia • Tajikistan • Kyrgyzstan • Sri Lanka • Afghanistan • Nigeria • Ethiopia • Mozambique • Botswana “Study Tours” conducted so far comprised of “class room Power Point Presentations”, field visits to major hydropower and dam projects, and some sight-seeing visits. For further details, please contact Ray Bilbow in SMEC Cooma Office Task 15.2 - Dams to be visited in Victoria, Australia (TECH-3) Examples of a few reservoirs and dams located in Victoria, Australia that could be included in the itinerary of the “Proposed Study Tour” are given below. • Thomson Reservoir and Dam. • Cardinia Reservoir and Dam. • Upper Yarra Reservoir and Dam. • Glenmaggie Reservoir and Dam. • Lake Bellfield and Dam. Thomson Reservoir and Dam, Victoria, Australia1 - Thomson Reservoir is the largest of Melbourne’s reservoirs. It has a capacity of 1,068 billion litres, and makes up about 60% of Melbourne's total storage capacity. Thomson supplies Silvan Reservoir (via Upper Yarra Reservoir), which distributes water throughout the Melbourne metropolitan area. The dam at the reservoir is an earth and rockfill embankment. Thomson Reservoir was completed in 1984, and was designed to build up water reserves in wet years for use in dry years. It was critical to maintaining water supply to Melbourne in the most recent drought from 1997 to 2009, in which time it went from almost full to just 16% full. On 31 July 1984, the newly-built Thomson Dam was officially included in Melbourne's total water storages, more than doubling storage capacity. Still virtually empty when factored in, Thomson's size dragged down the city's storage levels from 65% to 26% overnight. With a capacity almost four times that of Melbourne's next biggest reservoir, the Thomson was designed as a drought reserve – to be built up in wet years and used in dry years. It has been full three times: 1992, 1993 and 1996. 1 http://www.melbournewater.com.au/waterdata/waterstorages/Pages/%2Fwhatwedo%2Fsupply-water%2Freservoirs%2FThomson- Reservoir%2FPages%2FThomson-reservoir.aspx For further details, please contact Ray Bilbow in SMEC Cooma Office Cardinia Reservoir, Victoria, Australia2 - Cardinia is Melbourne's second largest reservoir, and can transfer water to most parts of Melbourne depending on how our supply system is managed. It receives water from Silvan Reservoir, as well as the Victorian Desalination Plant (when in operation). The dam at Cardinia Reservoir is a rolled earthfill and rockfill embankment, and was completed in 1973. Upper Yarra Reservoir, Melbourne3 - Upper Yarra Reservoir supplies Silvan Reservoir, which distributes water throughout the Melbourne metropolitan area. The dam was completed in 1957 and is a rolled earthfill and rockfill embankment. Dam Safety Engineer, Bandula Kendaragama, nominated in this proposal has successfully completed a number of assignments of Upper Yarra Dam, including geotechnical investigations, slope stability analysis etc., He is in a much better position to explain details of the dam, dam safety issues and many more aspects during the “Study Tour”. 2 http://www.melbournewater.com.au/whatwedo/supply-water/reservoirs/Pages/Cardinia-Reservoir.aspx 3 http://www.melbournewater.com.au/whatwedo/supply-water/reservoirs/Pages/Upper-Yarra-Reservoir.aspx For further details, please contact Ray Bilbow in SMEC Cooma Office Glenmaggie Reservoir and Dam - Lake Glenmaggie is located on the Macalister River 20 km west of Maffra, and supplies the Macalister Irrigation District. The dam, as originally constructed in 1927, had a storage capacity of 130,000ML. The dam operating level was raised in 1958 by the installation of radial gates to give a storage capacity of 190,000 ML but the current storage volume of the reservoir is 177,600ML due to siltation (survey was undertaken in 2007). The dam comprises a concrete gravity structure, including a gated overfall section, two irrigation outlets and a power station. Since 1995, instrumentation monitoring and dam safety surveillance of Glenmaggie Dam is being undertaken by SMEC. Dam Safety Engineer, Bandula Kendaragama, nominated in this proposal is a leading member of the Dam Safety Unit of SMEC undertaking this task since 1990. He is in a much better position to explain details of the dam, dam safety issues and many more aspects during the “Study Tour”. For further details, please contact Ray Bilbow in SMEC Cooma Office Lake Bellfield and Dam4 – Lake Bellfield is situated on Fyans Creek upstream of Halls Gap in the Grampians. The reservoir is the primary source of supply to much of the Wimmera Mallee Pipeline system and supplies the towns of Halls Gap and Pomonal. Since 1995, instrumentation monitoring and dam safety surveillance of Glenmaggie Dam is being undertaken by SMEC. Dam Safety Engineer, Bandula Kendaragama, nominated in this proposal is a leading member of the Dam Safety Unit of SMEC undertaking surveillance monitoring since 1990. He is in a much better position to explain details of the dam, dam safety issues and many more aspects during the “Study Tour”. 4 http://www.gwmwater.org.au/customers/information-reservoir-levels/lake-bellfield For further details, please contact Ray Bilbow in SMEC Cooma Office Task 15.3 - Visit to Seismology Research Centre (SRC), Melbourne Australia5 (TECH-3) The standards used for design, construction, operation, maintenance and surveillance of dams will minimise the risk of dam failure. However, as witnessed and learnt from history of dam failures, unusual circumstances could result in dam failure or damaging uncontrolled releases of their storages. The emergency could be, for example, slope failure of a section of the embankment dam or piping incident, slope instability, failure of the spillway caused by overtopping, sliding, earthquake or terrorism, failure of the component of outlet due to ageing, terrorism or other reasons. Since seismicity is also an important factor, a thorough understanding on seismicity, seismic hazard assessments, instrumentation required to monitor seismicity is extremely useful for senior managers and engineers of ZESCO, to successfully manage their business risk within acceptable levels and also within the budget. Having understood ZESCOs requirements, SMEC has included, a tailor-made “Study Tour” to the Seismology Research Centre in Melbourne, to fulfill requirements of ZESCO. The Seismology Research Centre (SRC), was founded in 1976 in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. It was part of RMIT University until 1998 when it was acquired by private industry, now owned by ESS Earth Sciences. The SRC operates the largest private earthquake observatory network in the world, and operates the greatest number of earthquake seismograph stations in Australia. Their clients include many government and private organisations, not only in Australia, but also in other countries, that require rapid notifications of earthquake epicentre locations and magnitudes to aid in the emergency management of their assets and infrastructure. SMEC is one of their leading clients with long standing mutual professional relationship since late 1970’s. 5 http://www.src.com.au/ For further details, please contact Ray Bilbow in SMEC Cooma Office Their staff have installed seismographs all over the world, provided training in basic seismology, hardware and software operation and maintenance, and have provided expert advice on the seismological inputs to many major engineering projects – including historic buildings, dams, and coal, gas, nuclear and hydro power stations. When the SRC was founded in a University environment, their research had a more academic focus, but also included the same research activities we undertake to this day, with a focus in three main areas: • researching user-friendly methods of rapid earthquake data processing, and implementing this in the development of new software; • adapting new technologies into digital seismographs for earthquake, blast and vibration recording, most recently in the field of low power communications; and • assessment of earthquake hazard of sites in Australia and globally, to determine probabilistic estimates of ground motion, activity rates, and synthetic time series plots. Their observatory is located in Richmond, an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Australia, and also have an operations base in Brisbane Queensland to service our northern seismograph stations. The SRC operates a 24/7 on-call duty staff roster that enables us to respond to earthquake emergencies within minutes. The SRC is also the regional distributor for products made by Guralp Systems Limited, a UK-based manufacturer of some of the best sensors in the world for monitoring earthquakes from the earth’s surface, in boreholes, or from the bottom of the ocean. A visit to the head office of SRC and their laboratory / work shop, accompanied by their professional and friendly staff, will be included in the proposed “Study Tour”. In addition, a
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