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Nowadays, in the world and our country, Iran, sediment transport and the phenomenon of sedimentation are of great importance. The entry of water flow with suspended sediments into the dam reservoir by floods with different return periods during the initial period of dam construction causes a considerable part of the helpful volume of the reservoir to be filled with sediments. As a result, the discharge of these sediments and the methods that exist in this field should be studied so that a large volume of reservoir water is not wasted during the discharge of these sediments. In this research, the opening time and extent of the bottom outlets of Qeshlaq Dam when the flood enters the reservoir...