- 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 ...
A valve designed for quick closure that consists of a circular leaf, slightly convex in form, mounted on a transverse shaft carried by two bearings.
Industry:Engineering
A ridge that prevents a sliding motion. A rib or rim for strength or for attachments. A rim or collar attached to one end of a pipe to give support.
Industry:Engineering
Reservoir capacity assigned to the sole purpose of regulating flood inflows to reduce flood damage downstream. See exclusive flood control capacity.
Industry:Engineering
An isolated block of soil, usually undisturbed and in situ, for measuring the quantity, quality, or rate of water movement through or from the soil.
Industry:Engineering
Operation, maintenance, repairs, replacements, testing, and exercising of any or all portions of an Early Warning System for the life of the system.
Industry:Engineering
A wall or pier parallel to the direction of flow in a channel that separates flows released from different sources as a means of energy dissipation.
Industry:Engineering
Water held under pressure in porous rock or soil confined by impermeable geologic formations. An artesian well is free flowing. See confined aquifer.
Industry:Engineering
A positively charged ion in an electrolyte solution, attracted to the cathode under the influence of a difference in electrical potential. See anion.
Industry:Engineering
The complete path of an electric current, including the generating apparatus or other source; or, a specific segment or section of the complete path.
Industry:Engineering
Smooth, broad-banded spectra appropriate for specifying the level of seismic design force, or displacement, for earthquake-resistant design purposes.
Industry:Engineering
