- 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 ...
Water that may contain objectionable pollution, contamination, minerals, or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
Industry:Engineering
The strength of an electric current measured in amperes. The amount of electric current flow, similar to the flow of water in gallons per minute (gpm).
Industry:Engineering
Strips of grass or other close-growing vegetation that separates a waterway (ditch, stream, creek) from an intensive land use area (subdivision, farm).
Industry:Engineering
Loosely woven hemp rope that has been treated with oil or other waterproofing agent; it is used to caulk joints in a bell and spigot pipe and fittings.
Industry:Engineering
Downward movement of water through the soil profile or other porous media. Water soaking into the ground. Flow through a porous substance. See seepage.
Industry:Engineering
Act or process of producing electrical energy from other forms of energy; also, amount of electrical energy produced expressed in kilowatt-hours (kWh).
Industry:Engineering
Metamorphic rock composed of sand-sized quartz grains that have fused together by heat and pressure. Also, a hard, well-cemented quartz-rich sandstone.
Industry:Engineering
Mineral grains whose particle size vary from a No. 4 sieve to a No. 200 sieve. A loose soil composed of particles between 1/16 mm and 2 mm in diameter.
Industry:Engineering
The integral of the pseudo-velocity response spectrum taken over the range of significant structural vibration periods of the structure being analyzed.
Industry:Engineering
The ratio of the actual damping to the critical damping, critical damping being the minimum amount of damping which prevents free oscillatory vibration.
Industry:Engineering
