- 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 condition in which the water pressure on the upstream and downstream sides of an object are equal (such as an emergency or regulating gate).
Industry:Engineering
Water that has inflitrated from a reservoir into the surrounding land where it remains in storage until water level in the reservoir is lowered.
Industry:Engineering
Energy requirement placed upon a utility's generation at a given instant or averaged over any designated period of time; expressed in kilowatts.
Industry:Engineering
Area which generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable.
Industry:Engineering
As applied to dam safety, the process of identifying the likelihood and consequences of dam failure to provide the basis for informed decisions.
Industry:Engineering
Any organization such as agencies, departments, offices, or local jurisdictions having a supportive role in emergency planning and preparedness.
Industry:Engineering
All rectangular gates set in vertical guides within which the gate moves vertically in its own plane. The hoist is usually on a runway overhead.
Industry:Engineering
The negative pole or electrode of an electrolytic cell or system. The cathode attracts positively charged particles or ions (cations). See anode.
Industry:Engineering
Method of irrigating where water is applied from field ditches onto land which has no guide preparation such as furrows, borders or corrugations.
Industry:Engineering
Pertaining to the lower, colder portion of a lake or reservoir which is separated from the upper, warmer portion (epilimnion) by the thermocline.
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