Abstract
Porous dikes have been proposed for use in blocking access of fish to cooling water intakes in power plants using large cooling ponds for heat dissipation. Flow through such dikes is neither of the Darcy type nor quadratic, the friction factor depending on both the Reynolds number and material properties. Full-scale tests of the dike material proposed for the LaSalle County power plant confirmed the material-property and Reynolds-number dependencies reported in the literature and permitted calibration of the head-loss parameters for the prototype material under two placement configurations. Limited tests on dike clogging by surface debris permitted quantification of the additional head loss which clogging could cause. Key words: porous media, cooling ponds, dikes, scale model tests.
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