Sentence examples for dam walls from inspiring English sources

Much depends on efforts to reduce the menacing pressure of water behind the dam walls.

The belly of the building is 75 feet deep and surrounded by sloped dam walls six feet thick.

"It's the opposite of parting the waters — making this a transparency between these massive dam walls," Mr. Ohlhausen said.

And when heavy rains come in the summer and autumn, floodwaters cascade over the dam walls with little or no warning.

A June 2010 aerial photograph of the wall of the sludge reservoir released by WWF shows leakage — three months before the dam walls were breached.

Smooth Lake refers to a poem that Mao Zedong wrote in 1956, when he swam across the Yangtze and dreamed of a new dam: Walls of stone will stand upstream to the west To hold back Wushan's clouds and rain Till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges.

And, down at the bottom of the dam wall, is a Dambusters Museum.

Ordinarily, the pressure is much higher on the upstream side — because the water is pressing against the dam wall.

The dam wall at Kariba is heavily used by road traffic, and a road bridge at Chirundu, Zimb., also connects the two countries.

It's dusk and we're suspended in space, nine of us perched on top of a dam wall, on either side a drop into the abyss.

Hydropower generated at the dam wall provides 2.1 gigawatts—half of Egypt's needs in 1970 giving numerous villages access to electricity for the first time.