- Branche: 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 ...
System consisting of two or more individual power systems normally operating with connecting tie lines.
Industry:Engineering
Monetary cost and billing unit used by utilities; equal to 1/1000 of U.S. dollar (or 1/10 of one cent).
Industry:Engineering
An industrial waste dam in which the waste materials come from mining operations or mineral processing.
Industry:Engineering
Facilities owned by Reclamation, but operated and maintained by an irrigation district or other entity.
Industry:Engineering
A congressionally approved Bureau of Reclamation project that has been authorized for specific purposes.
Industry:Engineering
Unit watershed; an area from which all the drainage water passes into one stream or other body of water.
Industry:Engineering
A flood hydrograph resulting from a dam breach prepared for a specific location downstream from the dam.
Industry:Engineering
A coarse screen used to remove oversize pieces from earth or blasted rock. A gate or closure on a chute.
Industry:Engineering
Likelihood that a certain loading event (static, seismic, hydrologic, other) occurs at a structure site.
Industry:Engineering
Energy required to pump water from the lower reservoir to the upper reservoir of a pumped-storage plant.
Industry:Engineering
