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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 ...
Ability of a community to have a unified response when facing a problem; e.g., an external threat to their sustainability.
Industry:Engineering
Part of a power system, or a combination of systems, to which a common electrical generation allocation scheme is applied.
Industry:Engineering
The number of days during the recreation season on which it is safe to allow floating activities on recreation facilities.
Industry:Engineering
A type of delay cap with a definite but extremely short interval between initiation, or passing of current, and explosion.
Industry:Engineering
A type of delay cap with a definite but extremely short interval between initiation, or passing of current, and explosion.
Industry:Engineering
Generally, any soil containing enough water to make it soft. A mixture of soil and water in a fluid or weakly solid state.
Industry:Engineering
A low place in a tract of land. A wide, shallow ditch, usually grassed or paved. A wide open drain with a low center line.
Industry:Engineering
The depth of water in a river at which the National Weather Service (NWS) reviews basin conditions for potential flooding.
Industry:Engineering
In terms of flow, acceleration is the time rate of change of the velocity vector, either of magnitude or direction or both.
Industry:Engineering
A separation or weakness between two layers of rock, caused by changes during the building up of the rock-forming material.
Industry:Engineering
