- 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 ...
The maximum load that can be permitted on a pile with adequate safety against movement of such magnitude that the structure is endangered.
Industry:Engineering
The quantity of electricity which passes any point in an electric circuit in 1 second when the current is maintained constant at 1 ampere.
Industry:Engineering
To permanently remove water from a system for a specific use. Loss of water from a stream, river, or basin resulting from consumptive use.
Industry:Engineering
Condition achieved when the average sand load transported by flowing water is in balance with the sand load being supplied by tributaries.
Industry:Engineering
Electric energy generated at a hydroelectric plant as a substitute for energy which would have been generated by a thermal electric plant.
Industry:Engineering
A form of auxiliary spillway consisting of a low embankment designed to be overtopped and washed away during an exceptionally large flood.
Industry:Engineering
In the context of dams and river channels, the designation of left or right is made with the observer looking in the downstream direction.
Industry:Engineering
Middle layer of a thermally stratified lake or reservoir with a rapid temperature decrease with depth. See stratification and thermocline.
Industry:Engineering
The vertical distance that a pump will raise waters. Distance water must be lifted in a well from the pumping level to the ground surface.
Industry:Engineering
The vertical distance that a pump will raise waters. Distance water must be lifted in a well from the pumping level to the ground surface.
Industry:Engineering
