Nearby Lake Carl Blackwell (3,200 acres [1,300 hectares]) was created in 1938 by the impounding of Stillwater Creek.
It was created by the impounding of the Nile's waters by the Aswan High Dam, which was built in the 1960s and dedicated in 1971.
In principle, the Mississippi's floods are either constricted by levees, hastened out of danger zones by floodways and improved channels, dissipated down spillways and into reservoirs, or starved by the impounding of tributary floods.
Pistia has become an unwelcome invader of Lake Kariba, the body of water formed by the impounding (1959) of the Zambezi River in the Kariba Gorge.
By November failure to pay debts had resulted in the impounding of Ukrainian ships at some foreign ports.
The playground, which has cost more than seven million dollars, is intended to encourage something like the spontaneous free play that is offered by a demolition site — minus the rock throwing and the forcible impounding of participants.
The relationship between intervention measures (e.g., culling and impounding of free-roaming dogs) and the time series of cases was assessed by counting the number of cases before and after implementation of these control measures.
But in April, saying that the Marines were stalling, the parking commissioner, Albert Moroni, raised the stakes by impounding one of the cars with nearly $5,000 in unpaid fines.
Using hillside ponds that fill by impounding a fraction of total runoff (e.g., diverting water upstream) from streams appears to have promise for meeting water needs.
On canalized rivers and artificial canals, the waterway consists of a series of level steps formed by impounding barriers through which vessels pass by a navigation lock.
