The SRS is a concrete-faced (upstream face), rock-cored, earthen dam about 550 m long, 56 m high, 21 m wide at the crest, and has a 122-m-wide armored spillway; its upstream catch basin is 13 km 2 in area and was designed to hold back about 200 million m 3 of sediment (USACE Portland District, unpublished data).
Pointing downward into the wave, face upstream, you had a fantastic impression of speed.
While crossing, face upstream and keep your pole upstream of you so that the current forces it into the stream bed.
We watched them slip back into the turbulent river, ride the current then turn to hold station facing upstream, waiting for the river to deliver food.
I reeled in a three-inch trout and Martin unhooked it and put the fish gently back in the water, facing upstream.
He had gone down facing upstream with water pouring into his waders and was extricated from that position by his guide, John Marshall.
It's an oddly stately endeavor: the practitioners more or less surf in place, facing upstream and doing 360s and cutbacks across the face of the oncoming but stationary wave.
Probably at the end of the Tertiary, the cave, open at the bottom of the valley slope and facing upstream, began to be filled with alluvial deposits from the valley.
3. Choose a starter to say, "Ready, steady, go!" 4. Competitors stand side-by-side, facing upstream.
It was to also have three balconies facing upstream of the Delaware River, to offer travelers scenic views.
