July 2006 follow-up monitoring of an erosion control project at a placer mining site southeast of Dawson City, Yukon. The Government of Yukon documented the performance of earth retaining walls and a flume reinforced with willow cuttings installed in September 2005. The report concluded that the flume's collapse was the primary cause of the project's failure.
Use Cases
- Evaluating the effectiveness of willow cuttings in slope stabilization based on the project description
- Analyzing causes of erosion control failure based on the documented malfunction of the flume
- Studying geotechnical interventions in placer mining areas based on the site location and context
Strengths
- Documentation includes specific dimensions of the erosion cut (300 metres long, up to 50 metres deep)
- Provides a clear temporal sequence of events (installation in September 2005, monitoring in July 2006)
- Identifies a specific cause of failure (collapse of the flume)
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to open_canada
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Yukon
- Time Range
- 2005-2006
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 16:02:35.041570; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Gold Run Creek, southeast of Dawson City, Yukon