- 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 ...
The failure of a sloped bank of soil or rock in which the movement of the mass takes place along a surface of sliding.
Industry:Engineering
A coefficient used to describe the relative roughness of a channel and overbank areas; used in hydraulic computations.
Industry:Engineering
Group of minerals that form thin, platy flakes, typically with shiny surfaces, especially common in metamorphic rocks.
Industry:Engineering
A system of pipelines or ditches to collect and convey surface or subsurface runoff from an irrigated field for reuse.
Industry:Engineering
A system of pipelines or ditches to collect and convey surface or subsurface runoff from an irrigated field for reuse.
Industry:Engineering
Of, relating to, or designating structural features of the earth which are associated with or revealed by earthquakes.
Industry:Engineering
Possible or plausible explanation of phenomena based on available evidence. A pound of crops is worth a ton of theory.
Industry:Engineering
An arch dam with a base thickness to structural height ratio of 0.3 or greater (previously defined as 0.5 or greater).
Industry:Engineering
In hydropower applications a gate which pivots open around the periphery of a turbine or pump to allow water to enter.
Industry:Engineering
The ratio of the plasticity index to the percent by dry mass of soil particles finer than 0.002 mm (2 microns) in size.
Industry:Engineering
