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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 plan developed during construction to help assure water quality compliance for both point and nonpoint pollution sources.
Industry:Engineering
A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rain water.
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See arch dam, buttress dam, or gravity dam. See also masonry dam. A concrete dam generally requires a sound rock foundation.
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Sedimentary rock composed of rounded gravel (pebbles, cobbles, and boulders) cemented together, usually found with sandstone.
Industry:Engineering
The relation between two or more variables. A statistical test that sets a numerical value to the amount of interdependence.
Industry:Engineering
What would occur if no action were taken. The future without taking any action to solve the problem. See baseline condition.
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The natural process of recycling water from the atmosphere down to (and through) the earth and back to the atmosphere again.
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Rate at which sediment passes a stream cross-section in a given period of time, expressed in millions of tons per day (mtd).
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Upper part of the soil ordinarily moved in tillage, or its equivalent in uncultivated soils, about 10 to 20 cm in thickness.
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A vertical or inclined layer of pervious material in an embankment to facilitate and control drainage of the embankment fill.
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