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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 ...
The condition in which the water pressure on the upstream and downstream sides of an object differ.
Industry:Engineering
A plank driven ahead of a tunnel face to support the roof or wall during excavation. See horsehead.
Industry:Engineering
Refers to the physics of the earth, e.g., seismology, oceanography, volcanology, geomagnetism, etc.
Industry:Engineering
A customer excluded by law from preference in the purchase of federally produced electrical energy.
Industry:Engineering
Any one of a series of stakes or points indicating distance from a point of beginning or reference.
Industry:Engineering
The load per unit of area required to produce failure by rupture of a supporting soil or rock mass.
Industry:Engineering
The quantity of ground water of acceptable quality that can be economically withdrawn from storage.
Industry:Engineering
The process of adding air to water by either passing air through water or passing water through air.
Industry:Engineering
At a recreational fishery, refers to the number of fish captured, whether they are kept or released.
Industry:Engineering
Thin layer of gravel spread over an area either of natural ground, excavated surface, or embankment.
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