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Civil engineering
The branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction, and maintenance of such public works roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.
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Catchment basin
Engineering; Civil engineering
Unit watershed; an area from which all the drainage water passes into one stream or other body of water.
Recruitment
Engineering; Civil engineering
Survival of young plants and animals from birth to a life stage less vulnerable to environmental change.
Grizzly
Engineering; Civil engineering
A coarse screen used to remove oversize pieces from earth or blasted rock. A gate or closure on a chute.
Pumping energy
Engineering; Civil engineering
Energy required to pump water from the lower reservoir to the upper reservoir of a pumped-storage plant.
Transferred works
Engineering; Civil engineering
Facilities owned by Reclamation, but operated and maintained by an irrigation district or other entity.
Area-capacity table
Engineering; Civil engineering
A table giving reservoir storage capacity, and sometimes surface areas, in terms of elevation increments.
Flow augmentation
Engineering; Civil engineering
The release of water stored in a reservoir or other impoundment to increase the natural flow of a stream.
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