Sentence examples for dam opening from inspiring English sources

"It was like a dam opening.

During a dam opening attended by important officials, the river failed to flow, and Burmese upstream were ordered to gather buckets and pour in additional water.

In the months and years following the dam opening, the population of Wyangala decreased significantly; houses used by workers on the north-west and north-east sides of the village were removed, leaving only the houses seen in the present day village, just below the dam wall.

At least once a day, the Harris Dam opens its gates and floods the Tallapoosa.

Gotvand Dam, opened three years ago to supply the sugarcane plants, lies on salt beds.

When the dam opened in 2000, the flow of water to the dam fell by 90 percent, and mist-dependent native plants gave way to invasive species.

The Teton Dam opened in the fall of 1975; the following June, cracks appeared in the main wall, and water from the reservoir began to leak through.

Since the dam opened, in 1984, engineers working in the gallery have pumped close to a hundred thousand tons of grout — an average of ten tons a day — into the voids below.

Since the dam opened, in 1984, engineers working in the gallery have pumped close to a hundred thousand tons of grout an average of ten tons a day into the voids below.

Kainji Dam (opened in 1969), the largest of the dams on the Niger, is 215 feet (66 m) high and 1,800 feet (550 m) across and provides electrical power, improved river navigation upstream to Yelwa in Kebbi state, water control of the Niger down to the Kaduna River confluence, and a road across the Niger, as well as waters for irrigation and fishing.

From the day the St. Francis Dam opened in 1926, it leaked.