Silt-Free Reservoir: A More Reliable Impoundment for Providing Drinking Water toLivestock and Wildlife

摘要

Over the past 12 years, the Richfield BLM District Office has developed a waterimpoundment referred to as the 'Silt-Free Reservoir', or SFR. The SFR is designed to store water more efficiently for a longer period of time, and it has a service life two to three times that of a typical reservoir. The document describes the construction details and costs of a typical SFR, which consists of two basins. One basin serves as a silt trap and a second basin is specifically sized and shaped to store water efficiently (i.e., minimal losses due to evaporation and underground seepage). Detailed engineering drawings are presented, along with other illustrations showing the advantages of SFR design principles.