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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 action or process of excavating (to dig or remove earth). See common excavation, rock excavation, and unclassified excavation.
Industry:Engineering
A gate consisting of a rectangular leaf encased in a body and bonnet and equipped with a hydraulic hoist for moving the gate leaf.
Industry:Engineering
To make level or to cause to conform to a specified grade. Any instrument that can be used to indicate a horizontal line or plane.
Industry:Engineering
A flood of lesser magnitude than the IDF, used for the service spillway design when supplemented by a separate auxiliary spillway.
Industry:Engineering
A homogeneous earthfill dam that uses pervious material specially placed in the embankment to control seepage. See embankment dam.
Industry:Engineering
A mud-covered, gently sloping tract of land alternately covered and left bare by water. The muddy, nearly level bed of a dry lake.
Industry:Engineering
Precipitation that consists of frozen flakes formed when water vapor accumulates on ice crystals, going directly to the ice phase.
Industry:Engineering
A heavy growth of algae in and on a body of water as a result of high phosphate concentration from farm fertilizers and detergents.
Industry:Engineering
A reverse flow condition, created by a difference in water pressures, which causes water to flow back into the distribution system.
Industry:Engineering
The depression, roughly conical in shape, produced in the water table by the pumping of water from a well. See circle of influence.
Industry:Engineering
