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U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation
Industry: Government
Number of terms: 15655
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
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 ...
Outlet works, spillways, bridges, drain systems, tunnels, towers, etc.
Industry:Engineering
To loosen or move rock or soil by means of explosives or an explosion.
Industry:Engineering
That portion of the soil finer than 0.002 mm (0.005 mm in some cases).
Industry:Engineering
The expansion of cohesionless soils when subject to shear deformation.
Industry:Engineering
All animals associated with a given habitat, country, area, or period.
Industry:Engineering
The operation of recovering an object left or dropped in a drill hole.
Industry:Engineering
River flows which make rafting and other floating recreation possible.
Industry:Engineering
All animals without a vertebral column, e.g. spiders, crabs, or worms.
Industry:Engineering
A uniformly graded gravel with a particle size of approximately 3/16".
Industry:Engineering
A dam constructed mainly of large precast concrete blocks or sections.
Industry:Engineering