- 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 general term applied to loose and incoherent deposits, usually at the foot of a slope and brought there chiefly by gravity.
Industry:Engineering
Separating charges of explosives by inert material which prevents passing of concussion, and placing a primer in each charge.
Industry:Engineering
An arch dam with a base thickness to structural height ratio between 0.2 and 0.3 (previously defined as between 0.3 and 0.5).
Industry:Engineering
The transfer of stress from a yielding part of a soil or rock mass to adjoining less-yielding or restrained parts of the mass.
Industry:Engineering
An agent used to assist in separating individual fine soil particles and to prevent them from flocculating when in suspension.
Industry:Engineering
A passageway within the body of a dam, its foundation, or abutments used for inspection, foundation grouting, and/or drainage.
Industry:Engineering
The outside areas between the springline and the bottom of a pipe. In pipe, the sides of the lower third of the circumference.
Industry:Engineering
A force which, when applied to a body having a mass of one kilogram, gives it an acceleration of one meter per second squared.
Industry:Engineering
A single financial entity which can be composed of several units or divisions, integrated projects, or participating projects.
Industry:Engineering
Material which has a particle size which varies from a No. 4 sieve to a No. 200 sieve and is used for refilling an excavation.
Industry:Engineering
