- Branża: 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 ...
The tendency of water to move into fine spaces, as between soil particles, regardless of gravity.
Industry:Engineering
To trap bubbles in water either mechanically through turbulence or chemically through a reaction.
Industry:Engineering
The capacity to exchange ions as measured by the quantity of exchangeable ions in a soil or rock.
Industry:Engineering
The path that a particle of water follows in its course of seepage under laminar flow conditions.
Industry:Engineering
A tower within a reservoir that contains the mechanisms to open the entrance to the outlet works.
Industry:Engineering
An intermittent shallow lake formed at the bottom of an undrained desert basin after heavy rains.
Industry:Engineering
The amount of water entering a reservoir expressed in acre-feet per day or cubic feet per second.
Industry:Engineering
The largest flood for which the safety of a dam and appurtenant structure(s) are to be evaluated.
Industry:Engineering
Twelve visitor hours which may be aggregated by one or more persons in single or multiple visits.
Industry:Engineering
A good representation in the material of all particle sizes present from the largest to smallest.
Industry:Engineering
