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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 ...
Untreated water flowing into a treatment facility, reservoir, or basin. See effluent.
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Demands that, by contract, can be interrupted if the supplying system lacks capacity.
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Method for determining characteristics of an object, organism or community from afar.
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An imaginary line within the flow which is everywhere tangent to the velocity vector.
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Additional material placed at the toe of an embankment dam to increase its stability.
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Combined effect of two or more chemicals equal to the sum of their individual effects.
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Human- modified environment, e.g. buildings, roads, and cities. See cultural resource.
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The reduction in volume of a soil mass resulting from an increase in effective stress.
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A rotary drill, usually a diamond drill, equipped with a hollow bit and a core lifter.
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The ratio of the ultimate strength of the material to the allowable or working stress.
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