The Tainter gate is a type of radial arm floodgate used in dams and canal locks to control water flow. It is named for its inventor, Wisconsin structural engineer Jeremiah Burnham Tainter.[1]
Tainter, an employee of lumber firm Knapp, Stout and Co., invented the gate in 1886 for use on the company's dam that forms Lake Menomin in the United States.[1]
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structural engineer Jeremiah Burnham Tainter. Tainter, an employee of lumber firm Knapp, Stout and Co., invented the gate in 1886 for use on the company's...
locks is the Taintergate. This gate opens and closes by pivoting on a trunnion which extends into the mass of the dam or lock. The Taintergate is used in...
April 1969 (1969-04). The water level of the reservoir is controlled by the five taintergate spillways located at the eastern end of the dam, with two additional...
Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems. They...
Tainter (January 6, 1836 in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin – February 5, 1920) was an inventor and engineer known for having designed the Taintergate in...
historian Tainter, Wisconsin, a town Tainter Lake, Wisconsin a census-designated place Tainter Lake (Dunn County, Wisconsin), a reservoir Taintergate on a...
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...
blue-green algae blooms afflict the lake due to high nutrient levels. The Taintergate was invented for use with the reservoir's 1886 dam. "Lake Menomin". Geographic...
If the TainterGates are not opened to release water via the dam spillway, water from the lake will begin to spill over those closed gates by approximately...
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...
mostly of rocks, and consists of a clay core. Three large controlled taintergate chute spillways, with a combined discharge volume of 8,100 m3/s (290...
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...
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 Taintergate in the channel...
Ogee-type and utilizes twenty-one 25 ft (7.6 m) tall and 36 ft (11 m) wide taintergates that are operated by two 60-ton hoists. The auxiliary spillways are...
three large movable gates which span the river, allowing boats to pass through during normal periods. Each of the three Taintergates is 40 feet (12 m)...
intended to help bring a person quickly to the surface of the water. Taintergate "Der Grundablass der Wehranlage in Schweinfurt". www.wsv.de. Archived...
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...
Height 110 ft (34 m) Length 2,850 ft (869 m) Spillways 30 Spillway type Taintergate Spillway capacity 986,000 cu ft (27,920 m3) Reservoir Creates Fort Gibson...
(163 m) long and includes 108 wicket gates and a Taintergate; it is one of two Illinois dams that still use wicket gates. The control station is for the most...
42 m (138 ft) in height, 420 m (1,378 ft) in length, and consists of 4 taintergate spillways with a combined discharge capacity of 10,235 m3/s (361,446 cu ft/s)...
project complete in 1993. The dam's spillway is controlled by five taintergates and has a maximum discharge capacity of 11,436 m3/s (403,859 cu ft/s)...
months ahead of schedule. The hydraulic load on this type of spillway gate (Taintergate) is transmitted from the cylindrical skin plate, which is in contact...