- Industry: Government
- Number of terms: 15655
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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 ...
Specific site(s) within a borrow area from which material is excavated for use.
Industry:Engineering
Bowl-like depression carved into a mountaintop by ice at the head of a glacier.
Industry:Engineering
Refers to the probability (in percent) that a flood will occur in a given year.
Industry:Engineering
Resistance to motion when one body is sliding or tending to slide over another.
Industry:Engineering
Moving mixture of sediment and water between 40 and 80 percent water by volume.
Industry:Engineering
The dry unit weight defined by the peak of a compaction curve. See unit weight.
Industry:Engineering
The curved top of a column of liquid in a small tube caused by surface tension.
Industry:Engineering
The free surface of water seeping at atmospheric pressure through soil or rock.
Industry:Engineering
Metamorphic rock composed of platy mica minerals aligned in the same direction.
Industry:Engineering
The lowest elevation in the reservoir from which water can be drawn by gravity.
Industry:Engineering
