- 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 dam designed to combine load resisting features of both a gravity and arch type dam.
Industry:Engineering
A compound, usually a man-made organic chemical, used to kill or control plant growth.
Industry:Engineering
An established air route of migratory birds along the west coast of the United States.
Industry:Engineering
Ash mixed with larger igneous rock fragments produced by explosive volcanic eruptions.
Industry:Engineering
The surface of the earth or rock prepared to support a structure or a pavement system.
Industry:Engineering
A substance, body, device, or wire that readily conducts or carries electrical current.
Industry:Engineering
Systematic process for consideration of environment factors in land management actions.
Industry:Engineering
A covered ditch containing a layer of fitted or loose stone or other pervious material.
Industry:Engineering
The raising of a surface due to the accumulation of ice in the underlying soil or rock.
Industry:Engineering
The curved downstream surface of horizontal arch elements of an arch dam. See extrados.
Industry:Engineering
