- Industry: Government
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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 maximum height at which a vertical or sloped bank of soil will stand unsupported under a given set of conditions.
Industry:Engineering
Irrigation land in a district to which the acreage limitation and pricing provisions of Reclamation law do not apply.
Industry:Engineering
The process of forming flocs. A step in water filtration in which alum is added to cause particles to clump together.
Industry:Engineering
Portable pipe with small gates installed along one side for distributing irrigation water to corrugations or furrows.
Industry:Engineering
Relating to pressure or equilibrium of fluids. The pressures and forces resulting from the weight of a fluid at rest.
Industry:Engineering
Energy periodically available for sale at lower than firm power rates. All energy which cannot be considered as firm.
Industry:Engineering
The vertical rise in the stillwater level at the upstream face of a dam caused by wind stresses on the water surface.
Industry:Engineering
The maximum water content at which a reduction in water content will not cause a decrease in volume of the soil mass.
Industry:Engineering
Overdrilling or drilling below final grade. Sometimes necessary to assure that final grade is obtained when blasting.
Industry:Engineering
Surface on which a plant or animal grows or is attached. The base on which an organism lives; a substance acted upon.
Industry:Engineering
