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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 ...
A line that touches a circle and is perpendicular to its radius at the point of contact.
Industry:Engineering
The protective material applied to the outer surface of a material, frequently metalwork.
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In a recreational fishery, refers to numbers of fish that are caught and kept. See catch.
Industry:Engineering
A graphical representation of the stresses acting on the various planes at a given point.
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Bend or steplike fold in rock layers where all strata are inclined in the same direction.
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A temporary excavation in which pipe is placed and eventually covered with soil material.
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The open areas, or spaces, in soil, sediments, and rocks that are filled by air or water.
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Walls constructed to deflect heavy floating debris away from the upper ends of a fishway.
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Of or related to movement in the earth's crust caused by natural relief of rock stresses.
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The formation of layers of different temperatures in bodies of water. See stratification.
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