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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 ...
Small streams or dry streambeds. A deep gulch or ravine, usually dry in the summer.
Industry:Engineering
Generally, a long narrow excavation. Constructed open channel for conducting water.
Industry:Engineering
A dam built to divert water from a waterway or stream into a different watercourse.
Industry:Engineering
Any one or combination of the operations involved in altering or movement of earth.
Industry:Engineering
The area of mixing of fresh water and salt water where a river flows into an ocean.
Industry:Engineering
The surface of the upper part of the earth mass carrying the load of the structure.
Industry:Engineering
Not permeable; not allowing liquid to pass through. Resistant to movement of water.
Industry:Engineering
Reach of a stream or river with a low bed elevation, relative to rapids or riffles.
Industry:Engineering
Big bend and loops in a river channel as the river snakes through a flat land area.
Industry:Engineering
A layer or deposit of soil or rock whose value is sufficient to justify excavation.
Industry:Engineering
