CASE STUDY Puerto Rico: Dam Monitoring The Portugués Dam is a roller-com- pacted concrete, thick-arch dam on the Portugués River, 5 km (3 mi) north- west of the city Ponce, Puerto Rico, USA. Construction on the dam began in April 2008 and finished in February 2014. The dam is 67 m (220 ft) high and 370 m (1,214 ft) long. As the first dam of its type in the US, monitoring and instrumentation are critical to the owner’s strategy for op- eration of the facility and validation of the design—over 40,000 people living downstream rely on the dam for flood protection. The contractor selected Canary Sys- tems®, (New London, NH), a Campbell Scientific partner, to provide software and services for the CR1000-based automated data-acquisition system (ADAS). Canary Systems provides full d

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