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What is a cofferdam?

What is a cofferdam? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A temporary watertight structure that is pumped dry to enclose an area underwater and allow construction work on a ship, bridge, or rig to be carried out; a caisson.
  2. (nautical) An empty space that acts as a protective barrier between two floors or bulkheads on a ship.
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A pump should be placed upstream of this cofferdam to pump streamflow around the work area and back into the stream.
Water will then flow through the left branch and the opening left in the cofferdam.
Excess materials left over from stream bank rehabilitation and cofferdam materials, etc. should be disposed of at an approved dump site.
Starboard water ballast tank No. 5 and the cofferdam at its forward end were breached.
Filter layers separate the cofferdam filler from the outer layers of freely draining rockfill.
At Rupert dam, the upstream cofferdam has a 2.0-m freeboard and the downstream cofferdam, a 1.5-m freeboard.

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