- 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 removal of dissolved salts from water by natural means (leaching) or by specific water treatment processes. The process of removing salt from seawater or brackish water.
Industry:Engineering
Flow of a liquid into a substance through pores of small openings. The gradual flow or movement of water into and through the pores of a soil. See permeability, percolation.
Industry:Engineering
Normally this type is used to represent the purchase cost of energy for firming up the power supply. In some instances, this can involve also the purchase of power capacity.
Industry:Engineering
Geologic process wherein streambeds, floodplains, sandbars, and the bottom of water bodies are raised in elevation by the deposition of sediment; the opposite of degradation.
Industry:Engineering
High pressure regulating gate consisting of two curved leaves which open and close over the end of a conduit. Used for free discharge into air with minimal cavitation damage.
Industry:Engineering
A pipe or small bridge for drainage under a road or structure. A conduit for the free passage of surface drainage water under a highway, railroad, canal, or other embankment.
Industry:Engineering
Electronic equipment device that gathers digital and analog data from monitoring devices and remotely relays that data to a central computer for interpretation and archiving.
Industry:Engineering
The angle that a stratum or any planar feature makes with the horizontal, measured perpendicular to the strike and in the vertical plane. The slope of layers of soil or rock.
Industry:Engineering
A sill under a foundation. Ground, in relation to its load bearing and friction qualities. Portion of the foundation of a structure that transmits loads directly to the soil.
Industry:Engineering
A natural or man-made narrow depression in the earth's surface. A narrow trenchlike plowed depression in the earth surface to keep surface water away from the slopes of cuts.
Industry:Engineering
