River weirs • Design, maintenance, modification and removal (C763F)

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This guide provides good practice guidance on the design, maintenance, modification and removal of river weirs, including weirs on canalised rivers, canal by-weirs and side weirs, and river barrages. It does not cover dams, reservoir spillways, estuarine barrages or structures regulating natural lakes.

The document will have a broad readership given the wide range of stakeholders involved in the operation of weirs and the use of rivers. The structure of the document reflects this. Readers will come to the guide with different perspectives, depending on the drivers for change and the questions they are trying to answer (see below). The guide aims to direct readers towards the information that they are looking for, and to alert them to other issues that they may not be aware of.

The accompanying CIRIA Weirs Database is a fully navigable tool of over 200 references relating to all aspects of weir design, maintenance, modification and removal.

ISBN: 978-0-86017-778-4
Author: Kitchen, A, Gauldie, R, Patterson, C, Bentley, S, Kirby, A M
Number of pages: 295 (PDF)
Publisher: CIRIA
Date of Publication: November 2016