- 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 ...
A bridge located on a Federal-aid highway. Examination of this type of bridge is required every 2 years with an in-depth examination every 6 years.
Industry:Engineering
The system by which mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery activities are undertaken to save lives and protect property from all hazards.
Industry:Engineering
Light-colored, coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with quartz and feldspar as dominant minerals and typically peppered with mica and hornblende.
Industry:Engineering
Ratio of average load on the plant for period of time considered to be the aggregate rating of all the generating equipment installed in the plant.
Industry:Engineering
Flow in an open channel is said to be steady if the depth of flow does not change over a given time interval. No change occurs with repect to time.
Industry:Engineering
Exotic species of a given area. Also refers to deposits of material that originated elsewhere, e.g., drifted plant material on the bottom of a lake.
Industry:Engineering
A negatively charged ion in an electrolyte solution, attracted to the anode under the influence of a difference in electrical potential. See cation.
Industry:Engineering
The value of the earth pressure when the soil mass is in its natural state without having been permitted to yield or without having been compressed.
Industry:Engineering
Any one of the computer programs that mathematically models basin characteristics to forecast reservoir inflow from rainfall and/or streamflow data.
Industry:Engineering
The intake and retention of nonfood substances by a living organism from its environment, resulting in a build-up of the substances in the organism.
Industry:Engineering
