More broad-based landslide dam stability indices, developed for other regions, poorly characterize the observed performance of the Type VI dams in our study.
To meet the simultaneous demands for water, energy, and environmental protection well into the future, a broader view of dams is needed.
About 30 percent of the creek's course has been inundated by the Sulphur Creek Reservoir, formed in the 1950s by a large dam across a broad north-trending valley.
Also, the dam and its broader complex hold strategic value as they supply electricity and water to a large part of the country.
It triggered numerous landslides over a broad area, some of which dammed rivers, posing severe threats to downstream settlements.
The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (M w 7.9) in China triggered numerous landslides over a broad area, some of which dammed rivers, posing severe threats to downstream settlements.
The oblast lies athwart the middle Volga River, which is there transformed into a broad lake by the downstream Samara dam.
Too few genuine classroom narratives break through to broad audiences, but Frank McCourt bust the dam wide open.
Projection is not limited to the sky - it can be against cliffs, dams, & any other broad surface.
The people of Myanmar had expressed "exceedingly broad-based opposition" to building a dam at the headwaters of the Irrawaddy River, the nation's biggest waterway, he wrote.
The riverboat, called the Bulgaria, had set out with 188 people on board for a cruise in the Kuybyshev Reservoir, a reach of the upper Volga that is dammed and forms a broad lake, according to state television.
