"an impoundment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to the act of confining or detaining something or someone, such as a person or a vehicle, within a specific area. It is commonly used in legal and governmental contexts. Example: The police officer ordered an impoundment of the suspect's car after finding illegal substances inside.
Santa Rosa Lake is an impoundment on the Pecos at Los Esteros Dam.
Early in the morning, the BLM managed to corral about 400 cattle into an "impoundment site".
The decision, which overturns a lower court, strikes at an impoundment policy started by the Giuliani administration.
Once a judge orders an impoundment, the state police take possession of ballots from the county clerk.
Mr. Paterson said the withheld funds were not "a cut" or an "impoundment" — perhaps drawing a legal distinction because only the Legislature is empowered to make permanent budget cuts.
Just before we arrived, a Fish and Wildlife conservationist found a flock of endangered wood storks nearby, and he led us down a dirt road about a 15-minute walk to an impoundment (as the fields are called).
This flooded 1.5 mile and 44 acre of the original course of the creek, creating a impoundment.
Mill tailings are thickened and deposited as a slurry in a circular impoundment with an area of approximately 1200 ha.
The cloud computing architecture was evaluated and validated through the development of a schematic, cross sectional model along a transect across a tailings impoundment at a REE mine tailings site in northwest China.
The missiles were removed in 1964, and the site was given to Suffolk County, which uses parts of it for a firing range, an auto impoundment yard and storage space.
From 1953 to 1958, mine tailings were deposited in an elevated impoundment at the Nickel Rim mine, an abandoned Ni Cu mine near Sudbury, Ontario.
