- 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 ...
An area where the rock mass has moved along the plane of contact which often becomes a channel for ground water.
Industry:Engineering
A flow of rainwater that covers the entire ground surface with a thin film and is not concentrated into streams.
Industry:Engineering
Scratch or groove in bedrock caused by rocks within a glacier grinding the earth's surface as the glacier moves.
Industry:Engineering
An arch dam with a base thickness to structural height ratio of 0.2 or less (previously defined as 0.3 or less).
Industry:Engineering
Rock that forms from the solidification of molten rock or magma at the earth's surface (extrusive igneous rock).
Industry:Engineering
The movement of water from the air to and below the Earth's surface and back into the air. See hydrologic cycle.
Industry:Engineering
Surrounding natural conditions or environment at a given place and time. Environmental or surrounding conditions.
Industry:Engineering
Commercial operation begins when control of the loading of the generator is turned over to the system dispatcher.
Industry:Engineering
An arch dam in which every horizontal segment or slice of the dam has approximately the same radius of curvature.
Industry:Engineering
A pump that moves water by reciprocating motion of a diaphragm in a chamber having inlet and outlet check valves.
Industry:Engineering
