Sentence examples for constructed a dam from inspiring English sources

In 1914, the Benton Water Supply Company constructed a dam on West Creek upstream of Benton.

In 1929, Ontario Hydro constructed a dam at Ear Falls that prioritized the delivery of hydroelectricity to cities across Manitoba and Ontario instead of the First Nations communities that were flooded by the project.

When she was 17 she was arrested and imprisoned for several days for taking part in a non-violent protest over a project to construct a dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania to generate hydroelectricity.

I couldn't electrify the country or construct a dam or build houses or clear a road or run a television station or design an urban water system or tend to the sick or improve the sanitation system or revitalize the economy or cancel the debt.

But a dispute in 1979 over a Norwegian plan to construct a dam on the Alta River 100 miles north of here that would inundate the Sami town of Masi and lay roads through prime reindeer grazing and calving areas made them suddenly aggressive.

Troops from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles and the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment are helping the Environment Agency construct a dam in Bridge Road, Chertsey, to protect 200 homes from flooding.

Due to the shortage of rain, the large evaporation rate and the lack of appropriate watershed, constructing a dam is not an appropriate way to supply water to this village.

We utilise plot data to assess the representation of indigenous forest communities that would be inundated by a recent proposal to construct a dam for hydroelectricity production on the Mokihinui River, South Island, New Zealand.

For instance, in CRT16 students are asked to consider a scenario in which results of a geotechnical analyses indicate that there is serious slope failure risk, but with low probability of occurrence, before constructing a dam to be built above a village.

Today, nobody would construct a dam or a highway without thinking of its environmental impact.

The results of the study concluded that it would cost over $6.2 million to construct a dam at the "Pensacola site" for flood control.