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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 contracted weir of trapezoidal shape in which the sides of the notch are given a slope of 1 horizontal to 4 vertical.
Industry:Engineering
A contracted weir of trapezoidal shape in which the sides of the notch are given a slope of 1 horizontal to 4 vertical.
Industry:Engineering
Starting a drill hole. When the hole is deep enough to hold the bit from slipping out of it, it is said to be collared.
Industry:Engineering
A deep hole, covered, and usually lined or filled with rocks, that holds drainage water until it soaks into the ground.
Industry:Engineering
A species or subspecies whose survival is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
Industry:Engineering
The right or easement to overflow, submerge, or flood certain lands; a right to prohibit building on certain floodways.
Industry:Engineering
A particular site on a stream, canal, lake, or reservoir where systematic observations of hydrologic data are obtained.
Industry:Engineering
Salt-loving. Plants that thrive in soils that contain salt and/or sodium. A plant that grows in salty or alkaline soil.
Industry:Engineering
A unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter, and one thousandth of a millimeter. One inch equals 25,400 microns.
Industry:Engineering
In a streambed, a ripple is a small triangle-shaped elements having gentle upstream slopes and steep downstream slopes.
Industry:Engineering
