Engineering geological evaluation of Bowa Dayole dam site, North Shewa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia

Developing nations like Ethiopia face food and water shortages due to weather and droughts. The Bowa Dayole masonry gravity dam is expected to irrigate farmland downstream. Despite this, the engineering geology is complicated by the presence of highly fractured and weathered aphanitic basaltic rock,...

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Main Authors: Ashu Fekadu, Yadeta C. Chemeda, Shankar Karuppannan, Endalu Tadele Chala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-01-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024174166
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