OWNER:
Kentucky Utilities Company
E.W. Brown Generating Station
P.O. Drawer R
Burgin, Kentucky 40310

ENGINEER:
Fuller, Mossbarger, Scott & May Civil Engineers, Inc.
1409 North Forbes Road
Lexington, Kentucky 40511

CONTRACTOR:
Bizzack Construction, Inc.
2265 Executive Drive
Lexington, Kentucky 40509-9705

The construction of a 2,100-foot levee to a height of forty feet above a slurried fly ash deposit was accomplished through the use of geogrid reinforcing and wick drains. A full-scale test section was first constructed to verify the design assumptions. The instrumentation on the test section included settlement plates, piezometers, slope inclinometers and strain gauges attached to the reinforcing geogrids. Following the successful completion of the test section, the balance of the levee was constructed utilizing the same design. This project was completed in 1990 and received the Honors Award from the American Consulting Engineers Council in their 1991 Engineering Excellence Competition.