South West Sand Storage (SWSS)
The SWSS facility is located in the southwest corner of the Mildred Lake lease area. It was commissioned in 1993. The facility was designed to provide coarse tailings sand storage, returning water and thin fine tailings to other sites within the Mildred Lake Project area. The crest elevation is 400 m or 390 m. An upgrade to increase the water storage to a maximum water surface level of 397 m was constructed in 2009 to 2010.
The embankment length is 19.5 km. The maximum embankment height is at least 30 m and the average embankment height is about 18.5 m. The average embankment base width is about 800 m from Google Earth. So the total embankment volume is about 145×106 m3.
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