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[[Image:CompletedSandDam.JPG|thumb|right|200px|竣工的沙坝。索马里兰。 Eric Fewster, BushProof / Caritas]]
* Timing is important: dams should be built during the dry season, but don’t build dams too close to the rains in order to avoid the trench filling up with water or the dam being washed away.时间安排很重要：建坝需在旱季进行，且勿太临近雨季，以避免沟渠被水填满或坝体被冲走。
* The method depends on the type of dam and the type of ground. The construction of sand dams in cascades improves total storage and efficiency and minimizes seepage losses. Dams made of concrete, stone-masonry (cheapest and easiest) and brickwork require skilled labour for construction, but are stronger and have a longer lifespan. 建坝方式由水坝类型和地质类型来决定。在梯级地形上建造沙坝能提升总储水量和效率，并将渗流损失降至最低。建坝方式由水坝类型和地质类型来决定。在梯级地形上建造沙坝能提升总储水量和效率，并将渗流损失降至最低。建坝方式由水坝类型和地质类型来决定。在梯级地形上建造沙坝能提升总储水量和效率，并将渗漏损失降至最低。混凝土、砌石（最便宜、最简单）和砌砖建成的水坝虽然需要熟练工人来建造，但会更坚固，使用寿命也更长。* Usually sand dams are built onto a rock layer, but where there is no rock and only clay, it can still work but as long as the foundation is keyed into the clay layer and where the wall does not protrude more than 0.5m above original sand level, otherwise there is a risk the structure overturns during a flood event.通常，沙坝要建在岩层上，但在没有岩石而只有黏土的情况下，只要地基能嵌进黏土层，且坝墙不超出原有沙层0.5米，沙坝仍能运行；否则在洪水期间，坝体有倾覆的危险。
* Key into banks or construct wing walls to avoid erosion around edges of the sand dam. Where wing walls are built, a good technique is to start with the wing walls and work inwards to the centre, since community enthusiasm lags by the time wing walls are constructed (if not built first), yet they are essential to proper functioning. Length of the wing wall varies according to bank characteristic: loose riverbanks, 7 metres; hard soils, 5 metres; hard & impermeable soils or rocks, wing wall is not needed. Planting napier grass along upstream riverbanks controls erosion and fixes the course of the river in a flood.
* The height of wall built before each flood event should not exceed accumulation rate of coarse to medium sand during that flood event, otherwise ponding & silt deposition will occur, which can lower specific yield and higher capillarity, then lead to limited extraction rates in wells upstream and more water lost to evaporation. Dams at 1.3m depth showed that where finer material content (0.063 mm or less) is increased, specific yield is known to decrease remarkably. Accumulation rate and therefore height varies according to location and should be adjusted at each site after the first flood event demonstrates the rate of accumulation. Height per stage will probably be between 0.3 metre and 1 metre per stage according to experience from past projects. Some silt deposition will always occur as velocities decrease toward the end of the flood event; the idea is to limit its quantity in final sand volume.
