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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 ...
Shutdown of a generating unit, or other facility, for inspection or maintenance, in accordance with an advance schedule.
Industry:Engineering
Estimates of the amount of specific pollutants that a body of water can safely take without threatening beneficial uses.
Industry:Engineering
Water requirements for a particular purpose, as for irrigation, power, municipal supply, plant transpiration or storage.
Industry:Engineering
A drain embedded in a concrete or masonry structure intended to relieve pressure caused by seepage behind the structure.
Industry:Engineering
Occurring over a short period of time; used to describe brief exposures and effects which appear promptly after exposure.
Industry:Engineering
Underground water held above the water table by capillary attraction. Water subject to the influence of capillary action.
Industry:Engineering
Gravel generally placed in a layer upon a finished surface to protect the finished surface from deterioration or erosion.
Industry:Engineering
Topographic map that portrays relief or elevation differences by the use of lines (contours) indiciating equal elevation.
Industry:Engineering
Physically connected electric generating, transmission, and distribution facilities operated as a unit under one control.
Industry:Engineering
Group of light-colored minerals often found as crystals in intrusive igneous rocks. The most common rock-forming mineral.
Industry:Engineering
