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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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Decision criteria
Engineering; Civil engineering
Set of formal criteria that is used to determine if an event is threatening and what action to implement.
Larval fish
Engineering; Civil engineering
An immature stage that develops from the fertilised egg before assuming the characteristics of the adult.
Flood boundary
Engineering; Civil engineering
Line drawn or outer edge of coloured (inundation) area on an inundation map to show the limit of flooding.
Milestone
Engineering; Civil engineering
A measurable action, state, or goal which marks a point of achievement on the way to solving the problem.
Cutoff
Engineering; Civil engineering
An impervious construction by means of which water is prevented from passing through foundation material.
Threatened
Engineering; Civil engineering
A legal classification for a species which is likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future.
Ambursen dam
Engineering; Civil engineering
A buttress dam in which the upstream part is a relatively thin flat slab usually made of reinforced concrete.
