DAMAST-Transfer in Brief

Arrival in Tbilisi in the early morning of Monday, November 6.

Thanks to our Georgian colleagues of the TSU (Prof. Nino Tsereteli), the seismic network around Enguri dam could be expanded by a new station in the southwest of the Gali Reservoir.
23.10.2023

Resilience & Sustainability
AI-based Early Warning Systems for Dam Safety
25th-27th September at Tbilisi State University (TSU), 1 Ilia Tchavtchavadze Avenue,
Academic Building I, Room N115, 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia

Registration until 15th of September: S.S. Ottenburger, ottenburger@kit.edu

>  Agenda

DAMAST-Transfer

Safe the Dates! New Webinar Series:
- Assessment of sedimentation in Enguri Reservoir
- Regional and local deformation monitoring of the Enguri area
- Tectonics and induced seismicity in Enguri

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Arrival at Enguri in early evening of march 21.

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Three weeks of discovery (Bluashvili – Kamenksy – Tepnadze):
Focus was on the orientation of drill-cores based on date of boreholes logging and drill core scans. These data are important for running the Enguri Dam which produces water power and thus clean energy which is one of the UN sustainability goals.

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• Conference on Monitoring for Enhanced High Dam Lifetime: Reliable Supply of water and electricity in times of Decarbonisation.
• Conference: Dams in Armenia – State of the Art & Research Potential.
• Conference Field Trip September

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On August 24 the new Drillhole KIT-Spartak was spudded at the Enguri Dam.

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The new team to analyse the drillcores has arrived. Thomas Röckel our experienced geologist will train Alexander Kamensky, a student of George Melikadze at the Georgian Technical University.

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On 4 and 5 April 2022, the final conference "DAMAST-Conference: Monitoring for Hydropower Lifetime" took place in Luisentahl.

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Birgit Müller and Lukas Müller arrived on Friday, March 18 at Enguri Dam where it had been snowing the days before.

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Visiting Shtolna for checking injection site. In the evening Giorgi Bochorishvili and his team arrived.
Roman made first measurement with his multisensortool and Thomas Röckel and Birgit Müller analysed drill cores.

Forscher untersuchen Risiken für Staudämme
Mehr als 16 Prozent des globalen Strombedarfs werden aus Wasserkraft erzeugt – und Tausende weitere Staudämme sind weltweit geplant. Ein Forscherteam aus Karlsruhe will mit Partnern aus Georgien und Armenien den Betrieb von Stauanlagen sicherer und effizienter machen.

In the Enguri Valley we could log of the KIT-4 well with the acoustic and the optical televiewer. Great data.

Many thanks – see you in autumn.

Drilling of Shtolna-2 well has started.

The teams at Enguri have been working in the field. Fractures in the power tunnel were checked.
Trip to Nenskra valley.

The field trip 2020, including drillings and borehole measurements, just started.

For short information on the current field work follow the link below.

August 2020: Mobilization of Sinergia Drill Rig for the drilling of 20 m seismometer holes has been completed.

The drillings on the drill sites close do Enguri Dam have started.

Congrats to our Georgian partners for the successful proposals, granted by the Shota Rustaveli Foundation:

1. "Characterization of Ingirishi fault reactivation potential at Enguri Dam (Young Scientist Proposal for Nino Goguadze)"

2. "New fundamental approaches to assessment of geo-hazards of large hydropower dams/reservoirs: the case of Enguri High Arc Dam Area"