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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 ...
An eight-digit number used to identify a geographic area representing part or all of a surface drainage basin or distinct hydrologic feature.
Industry:Engineering
Movement of water down through soil to porous aquifers or to surface outlets at lower elevations. Drainage within a basin that has no outlet.
Industry:Engineering
Geology that deals with the origin, composition, distribution, and succession of strata. Study or description of layered or stratified rocks.
Industry:Engineering
Sediment that is supported by the upward components of turbulence in a stream and that stays in suspension for an appreciable length of time.
Industry:Engineering
Sediment that is supported by the upward components of turbulence in a stream and that stays in suspension for an appreciable length of time.
Industry:Engineering
The curve showing the relationship between the dry density (dry unit weight) and the moisture content of a soil for a given compactive effort.
Industry:Engineering
Specific location on a stream where systematic observations of hydrologic data are obtained through mechanical or electrical means. See gauge.
Industry:Engineering
A system of data collection platforms that gathers hydrometeorological data, and transmits that data via GOES Satelite to a computer downlink.
Industry:Engineering
Procurement, installation, and implementation of all the components of an Early Warning System; includes inspecting and exercising the system.
Industry:Engineering
A buttress dam in which the buttress is greatly enlarged on the upstream side to span the gap between buttresses. See solid head buttress dam.
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