Sentence examples for dam bank from inspiring English sources

In order to help avoid the formation of vortices and separation of flow along the guide wall in front of the gates during overflow through the spillway, an experiment with a physical model of the Yutang Dam bank spillway was carried out.

The sheer amount of storm water that engulfed the region has demolished fences, exposed pipelines, destroyed water infrastructure, created huge gullies that were once only small seasonal streams, turned roads into rivers and washed dam banks away.

These environmental changes may occur naturally, as in the case of climatic variation or changes in vegetative cover, or may be related to human activities including channelization, damming, bank protection, and bridge construction.

Numerous dams and bank stabilization projects have been constructed to facilitate the conversion of 300000 acre of Missouri River floodplain to agricultural land.

Generally, landslide dams, stream banks and soil slopes are composed of unconsolidated materials which exist in unsaturated conditions.

An earth bank dam fed by mile long tunnel from a weir on the river at Gumeracha, its elevation allows gravity supply of water to Adelaide's eastern suburbs.

Water surged downstream after the 20-foot-wide support, which connected the 75-foot-wide Norvell Dam to the bank of the River Raisin, caved in, Jackson County Sheriff's Sgt. Thomas Love said.

"There it is," he said, sweeping his arm to take in a scene that emerges for only a few weeks each year: the shallow, sluggish river pooling behind what looked like a makeshift V-shaped dam stretching 200 feet, bank to bank.

And early this year, Washington said it would not support construction of dams by the bank if they displaced people from their homes.

In 2015 the Fundao dam on the banks of a tributary to the Rio Doce was breached by sludge from the Samarco mining company.

The flat-batter dam, or spread-bank dam, is another water harvesting method, from the southern coastal area of Western Australia (Plate 6.6).