- 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 ...
Mixed fresh and salt waters. Water containing too much salt to be useful to people but less salt than ocean water.
Industry:Engineering
The maximum discharge for a given specific energy, or the discharge which will occur with minimum specific energy.
Industry:Engineering
A gravity dam in which the mass masonry consists primarily of large one-man or derrick stone embedded in concrete.
Industry:Engineering
Sloping mass of boulders, cobbles, gravel, sand, silt and clay formed by debris flows at the mouth of a tributary.
Industry:Engineering
Order of firing charges obtained by arranging delays to fire separate holes or series of holes at different times.
Industry:Engineering
Practically instantaneous decomposition or combustion of an unstable compound, with tremendous increase in volume.
Industry:Engineering
Partially or completely treated wastewater flowing out of a treatment facility, reservoir, or basin. See influent.
Industry:Engineering
The U.S government agency whose mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment.
Industry:Engineering
A landholder is an individual or legal entity owning or leasing land subject to the acreage limitation provisions.
Industry:Engineering
Area containing ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or historical value.
Industry:Engineering
