- 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 ...
A method of compacting soil using a vibrating plate or vibrating smooth drum roller used on the surface of soil placed.
Industry:Engineering
The ratio of the present value of project benefits to the present value of the project costs, used in economic analysis.
Industry:Engineering
Genetically homogeneous population composed only of closely similar individuals; a genotypic race or group of organisms.
Industry:Engineering
Reduction in particle spacing in a soil, and decrease in water content, resulting from an increase in external pressure.
Industry:Engineering
System of irrigation water delivery where each irrigator receives their allotted quantity of water at a continuous rate.
Industry:Engineering
Quantity of water, exclusive of effective precipitation, that is needed for crop production. See irrigation requirement.
Industry:Engineering
Complex system composed of a community of people, animals, and plants as well as the chemical and physical environments.
Industry:Engineering
Excavate in such a manner as to utilize material in a particular vein or layer, and waste or avoid surrounding material.
Industry:Engineering
Having to do with quality or qualities. Descriptive of kind, type or direction, as opposed to size, magnitude or degree.
Industry:Engineering
Generation capacity that can be synchronized and ready to serve load in a short time period, usually 10 minutes or less.
Industry:Engineering
