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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 ...
For a specified area, the average value of annual runoff amounts calculated for a selected period of record that represents average hydrologic conditions.
Industry:Engineering
Climatic condition in which there is insufficient soil moisture available for normal vegetative growth. A prolonged period of below-average precipitation.
Industry:Engineering
Absolute pressure minus atmospheric pressure. The pressure within a closed container as measured with a gauge. Sometimes referred to as relative pressure.
Industry:Engineering
A general term including all aspects of ground motion, namely particle acceleration, velocity, or displacement, from an earthquake or other energy source.
Industry:Engineering
The ratio of an average load to the maximum load. Average load carried by an engine, machine, or plant, expressed as a percentage of its maximum capacity.
Industry:Engineering
Publicly owned systems and non-profit cooperatives which, by law, have preference over investor-owned systems for purchase of power from Federal projects.
Industry:Engineering
Deepest part of the ocean or lake where light does not penetrate. This layer usually has fewer nutrients, more silt, and fewer organisms than the surface.
Industry:Engineering
Process of obtaining citizen input into each stage of development of planning documents. Citizen input is required in all environmental impact statements.
Industry:Engineering
A steel gate that upon opening or closing slides on its bearings in edge guide slots. A gate that can be opened or closed by sliding in supporting guides.
Industry:Engineering
The reservoir capacity assigned to flood control purposes during certain periods of the year and to conservation purposes during other periods of the year.
Industry:Engineering
