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Freeboard is the vertical distance between the top of a dam and the reservoir's full supply level. It consists of four main components: a safety margin for increased reservoir levels from flood routing; effects from periodic undulations in the reservoir; increased water surface from continuous wind shear, which depends on reservoir depth, wind fetch, wind angle, and speed; and increased water levels from wave run-up on the dam, which depends on wave height, depth, dam geometry, and approach conditions.

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Freeboard

Freeboard is the vertical distance between the top of a dam and the reservoir's full supply level. It consists of four main components: a safety margin for increased reservoir levels from flood routing; effects from periodic undulations in the reservoir; increased water surface from continuous wind shear, which depends on reservoir depth, wind fetch, wind angle, and speed; and increased water levels from wave run-up on the dam, which depends on wave height, depth, dam geometry, and approach conditions.

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FREEBOARD
Freeboard is the vertical distance between the top of the dam and
the full supply level in the reservoir; the top of the dam is the highest
watertight level of the structure and could thus be the top of a watertight
parapet.
Components:
o Rise in reservoir level due to flood routing.
o Seiche effects: periodic undulations of the reservoir, are usually ignored,
particularly in medium-sized reservoirs, and their effect is included in a
safety margin added to the other freeboard components.
o Wind set-up of the water surface : results from the shear induced by
continuous wind (or regular gusts in one direction). Its value will depend
on the reservoir depth, dr (m), wind fetch, F (km) (the maximum free
distance which wind can travel over the reservoir), the angle of the wind
to the fetch, _, and the wind speed U (kmh_1) measured at a height of 10
m.
o Wave action and run-up of waves on the dam : The run-up of waves on the
upstream dam face, i.e. the maximum vertical height attained by a wave
running up a dam face, referred to the steady water level without wind
action, depends primarily on the wave height, the depth in front of the
dam, the geometry and material of the upstream face of the dam, and
the approach conditions in the reservoir.

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