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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 for household purposes, such as drinking, food preparation, bathing, washing clothes and dishes, flushing toilets, and water lawns and gardens.
Industry:Engineering
Water for household purposes, such as drinking, food preparation, bathing, washing clothes and dishes, flushing toilets, and water lawns and gardens.
Industry:Engineering
A dam constructed for two or more purposes (e.g. storage, flood control, navigation, power generation, recreation, or fish and wildlife enhancement.)
Industry:Engineering
An act requiring analysis, public comment, and reporting for environmental impacts of Federal actions. See National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
Industry:Engineering
Deposition of waterborne sediments due to a decrease in velocity and corresponding reduction in the size and amount of sediment which can be carried.
Industry:Engineering
A test in which a specimen of soil or rock encased by an impervious membrane is subjected to a confining pressure and then loaded axially to failure.
Industry:Engineering
Any human-made or used object, intact or in pieces, 50 years or older. Artifacts are protected by the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979.
Industry:Engineering
A rectangular gate similar in construction and appearance to the tractor gate except sealing is accomplished in much the same way as a ring seal gate.
Industry:Engineering
Device that converts analog information into a digital format; for flat graphic material, such as maps, a digitizer can either be flatbed or scanning.
Industry:Engineering
Amount of electrical capacity or energy delivered or required at a given point. The power output of an engine or powerplant under given circumstances.
Industry:Engineering
