Proposed electricity generation developments: peat landslide hazard best practice guide
Second edition of guidance on best practice methods to identify, mitigate and manage peat slide hazards and associated risks.
Figures and Plates
Figure 1.1 Flow diagram checklist for peat landslide hazard
and risk assessment
Figure 5.1 Balance of slope forces
Plate 2.1 Bog burst, a spreading failure in peat with pear
shaped area of disturbance with concentric rafts and tears and
little substrate exposed
Plate 2.2 Peat slide, a shallow translational slide failure
in peat with large slab-shaped raft visible (right) and extensive
exposed substrate (left)
Plate 2.3 Long and semi-continuous tension crack
Plate 2.4 Diamond shaped tears
Plate 2.5 Multiple intersecting cracks
Plate 2.6 Compression ridge
Plate 2.7 A section of thrusted peat
Plate 2.8 Extrusion features
Plate 2.9 Pipe outlet in exposed peat scarp
Plate 2.10 Collapsed piping
Plate 2.11 Gullies, and pools and hummocks
Plate 2.12 Flushes and soakaway
Contact
Email: Energy Consents Unit
Phone: 0300 244 4000 – Central Enquiry Unit
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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