- Settore: 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 ...
Compression corresponding to stresses greater than the preconsolidation stress.
Industry:Engineering
Unit for measuring land, equal to 43,560 sq. ft., 4840 sq. yds., or 160 sq. rds.
Industry:Engineering
The ratio of the volume of airspace to the total volume of voids in a soil mass.
Industry:Engineering
A rotating drill having a screw thread that carries cuttings away from the face.
Industry:Engineering
Usually a part of an excavator which digs and pushes dirt but does not carry it.
Industry:Engineering
Density of sexually mature organisms in a given area during the breeding period.
Industry:Engineering
The place where two streams meet, or the stream formed from two joining streams.
Industry:Engineering
Cone-bearing trees or shrubs, mostly evergreens such as pine, cedar, and spruce.
Industry:Engineering
Increasing the efficiency of energy use, water use, production, or distribution.
Industry:Engineering
Horizontal tunnels in which explosives are packed for blasting a high rock face.
Industry:Engineering
