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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 ...
A buttress dam in which the upstream part is a relatively thin flat slab usually made of reinforced concrete.
Industry:Engineering
A condition in which free (atmospheric) or dissolved oxygen is not present in water. The opposite of aerobic.
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Portion of spillway between the inlet channel and the chute, tunnel or conduit, which does not contain gates.
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Any artifact which, because of form, shape, or function, provides chronological or manufacturing information.
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The delivery of electricity to the retail customer's home or business through low voltage distribution lines.
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A structure that conveys water to a lower elevation and dissipates the excess energy resulting from the drop.
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Water may be considered hard if it has a hardness greater than the typical hardness of water from the region.
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Fine-grained sedimentary rock formed from hardened clay and silt that lacks the thin layers typical of shale.
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Any chemical containing the element carbon. Substances that come from animal or plant sources. See inorganic.
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Rate at which electric energy is required and delivered to or by a system over any designated period of time.
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