structural engineer Jeremiah Burnham Tainter. Tainter, an employee of the lumber firm Knapp, Stout and Co., invented the gate in 1886 for use on the company's...

locks is the Tainter gate. This gate opens and closes by pivoting on a trunnion which extends into the mass of the dam or lock. The Tainter gate is used in...

Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems. They...

April 1969 (1969-04). The water level of the reservoir is controlled by the five tainter gate spillways located at the eastern end of the dam, with two additional...

"ripped out" 6 of the 7 tainter gates. This was mostly caused by the tainter gates being positioned so that the bottom edge of the gate was submerged during...

Tainter (January 6, 1836 in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin – February 5, 1920) was an inventor and engineer known for having designed the Tainter gate in...

historian Tainter, Wisconsin, a town Tainter Lake, Wisconsin a census-designated place Tainter Lake (Dunn County, Wisconsin), a reservoir Tainter gate on a...

with concrete. The spillway consists of 22-tainter gates for overflow and at the base of the dam, 6-sluice gates were installed to maintain downstream flows...

blue-green algae blooms afflict the lake due to high nutrient levels. The Tainter gate was invented for use with the reservoir's 1886 dam. "Lake Menomin". Geographic...

city in 1882. The Mabel Tainter Memorial Building, a local landmark, was built in 1890 and dedicated on July 3, 1890, by Tainter in honor of his daughter...

If the Tainter Gates are not opened to release water via the dam spillway, water from the lake will begin to spill over those closed gates by approximately...

Eufaula to rise so rapidly that the Corps of Engineers opened the flood gates and released water at rates as high as 48,000 cubic feet (1,400 m3) per...

The Cannelton Locks and Dam is a tainter-gated dam with two locks on the Ohio River, on the border between the U.S. states of Indiana and Kentucky. The...

Heaven's Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt,...

three large movable gates which span the river, allowing boats to pass through during normal periods. Each of the three Tainter gates is 40 feet (12 m)...

21-foot-high (6.4 m) Standard Tainter gates and one 110-foot-wide (34 m) by 11-foot-high (3.4 m) Water Quality Tainter gate. Each gate is operated by two hydraulic...

a flood gate at the northern (upstream) end of the bend; 2) a small dam at the southern (downstream) end of the bend; and 3) a Tainter gate in the channel...

Ogee-type and utilizes twenty-one 25 ft (7.6 m) tall and 36 ft (11 m) wide tainter gates that are operated by two 60-ton hoists. The auxiliary spillways are...

Lake to rise so rapidly that the Corps of Engineers had to open the flood gates and release water at rates as high as 48,000 cubic feet (1,400 m3) per second...

intended to help bring a person quickly to the surface of the water. Tainter gate "Der Grundablass der Wehranlage in Schweinfurt". www.wsv.de. Archived...

42 m (138 ft) in height, 420 m (1,378 ft) in length, and consists of 4 tainter gate spillways with a combined discharge capacity of 10,235 m3/s (361,446 cu ft/s)...

tribes after the Black Hawk War Jeremiah Burnham Tainter (1836–1920), engineer who invented Tainter gate Ormsby B. Thomas, U.S. Representative William Miller...

of the reservoir pool. Dams may also have bottom outlets with valves or gates which may be operated to release flood flow, and a few dams lack overflow...

mostly of rocks, and consists of a clay core. Three large controlled tainter gate chute spillways, with a combined discharge volume of 8,100 m3/s (290...

out what has happened. Four gates lead out of the village to increasingly more difficult areas claimed by the fog. The gates are closed behind players once...

future. The dam at Wilson's Landing is eight miles long and has 62 Tainter gates. Despite its size, the Santee Dam generates only 1.92 megawatts of hydropower...

project complete in 1993. The dam's spillway is controlled by five tainter gates and has a maximum discharge capacity of 11,436 m3/s (403,859 cu ft/s)...

Height 110 ft (34 m) Length 2,850 ft (869 m) Spillways 30 Spillway type Tainter gate Spillway capacity 986,000 cu ft (27,920 m3) Reservoir Creates Fort Gibson...

Cedar Falls (Kakabika Falls), Tainter Lake did not exist. The decision to build the mill and dam came from Andrew Tainter (1823 - 1899), a wealthy lumber...

(163 m) long and includes 108 wicket gates and a Tainter gate; it is one of two Illinois dams that still use wicket gates. The control station is for the most...