- Industry: Government
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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 ...
Untreated water flowing into a treatment facility, reservoir, or basin. See effluent.
Industry:Engineering
Demands that, by contract, can be interrupted if the supplying system lacks capacity.
Industry:Engineering
Method for determining characteristics of an object, organism or community from afar.
Industry:Engineering
An imaginary line within the flow which is everywhere tangent to the velocity vector.
Industry:Engineering
Additional material placed at the toe of an embankment dam to increase its stability.
Industry:Engineering
Combined effect of two or more chemicals equal to the sum of their individual effects.
Industry:Engineering
Human- modified environment, e.g. buildings, roads, and cities. See cultural resource.
Industry:Engineering
The reduction in volume of a soil mass resulting from an increase in effective stress.
Industry:Engineering
A rotary drill, usually a diamond drill, equipped with a hollow bit and a core lifter.
Industry:Engineering
The ratio of the ultimate strength of the material to the allowable or working stress.
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