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A U.S. Department of the Interior agency that oversees water resource management incuding the oversight and operation of numerous diversion, delivery, and storage projects the agency has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power ...
Pipes used to relieve uplift or pore-water pressure in a dam foundation or in the dam structure.
Industry:Engineering
A doctrine of water law that allocates the right to use water on a first-come first-serve basis.
Industry:Engineering
Having to do with quantity, capable of being measured. Descriptive of size, magnitude or degree.
Industry:Engineering
A stretch of choppy water caused by an underlying rock shoal or sandbar. A run is a long riffle.
Industry:Engineering
A graduated scale on a plank or metal plate used to indicate the height of the water in a canal.
Industry:Engineering
A synchronous machine running without mechanical load and supplying or absorbing reactive power.
Industry:Engineering
Any project, activity, or program that could change the character or use of historic properties.
Industry:Engineering
A weir that is V-shaped, with its apex downward, used to accurately measure small rates of flow.
Industry:Engineering
The amount of water held in the soil that is available to the plants. See water holding capacity.
Industry:Engineering
The tendency of water to move into fine spaces, as between soil particles, regardless of gravity.
Industry:Engineering
