- Industry: Government
- Number of terms: 15655
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- Company Profile:
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 ...
Liquid and solid human body waste and the carriage water generated through toilet usage.
Industry:Engineering
Movement of underground water in response to capillary attraction. See capillary action.
Industry:Engineering
Particle diameter corresponding to 10 percent finer on the accumulative gradation curve.
Industry:Engineering
Failure in which a soil mass moves over relatively long distances in a fluidlike manner.
Industry:Engineering
Twelve inches. One of a number of projections on a cylindrical drum of a tamping roller.
Industry:Engineering
An overhead structure that supports machines or operating parts, such as a gantry crane.
Industry:Engineering
Concrete lined portion of spillway between approach channel and gate or crest structure.
Industry:Engineering
The lowest level to which the reservoir is drawn down under normal operating conditions.
Industry:Engineering
The elevation as called out or dictated in notes, drawings or specifications paragraphs.
Industry:Engineering
A steeply sloping spillway channel that conveys discharges at super-critical velocities.
Industry:Engineering
