PROJECT LOCATION Coari, Amazonas, Brazil PROJECT CHALLENGES Downstream from the Petrobrás oil storage yard on the bank of the Solimões River in Brazil, a shoreline embankment 1,200 ft. long and 80 ft. tall was exposed to very intense and prolonged e r o s i o n . Width variations of up to 3,000 ft. were observed at some points of the river. The erosion was due to the varia- tion of the water level of more than 40 ft., the sa

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