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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 ...
An accident or other circumstances which threatens to result in discharge of oil or other hazardous substances.
Industry:Engineering
The relationship between the maximum size of the stone which will enter a crusher, and the size of its product.
Industry:Engineering
A contracted or suppressed weir with a horizontal crest, rectangular in shape, having vertical sides. See weir.
Industry:Engineering
The land on and immediately surrounding a structure that is owned by the entity holding title to the structure.
Industry:Engineering
The State government agency or office having the principal or lead role in emergency planning and preparedness.
Industry:Engineering
A year-end amount owned to the Treasury which remains to be repaid and is synonymous to "balance to be repaid."
Industry:Engineering
The soil or rock located below the top of the ground water table that is saturated with water. See water table.
Industry:Engineering
Generally, surface areas, that contain borrow pits. The area from which material for an embankment is excavated.
Industry:Engineering
Actual rate of increase of new individuals in a given population; the breeding potential minus limiting factors.
Industry:Engineering
The value of power including both a capacity and energy component, usually expressed in mills per kilowatt-hour.
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