Sentence examples for head gate from inspiring English sources

Whenever a head gate silted up, a cut was made around it.

I'm by the wall that we had to rebuild after "Head Gate".

No farmers were arrested because no fish were being sucked through the head gate and the lake's water level had not dropped, she said.

Dozens of farmers, camped out at the canal head gate for several days, placed a pump in Upper Klamath Lake and ran a pipe along a fence into the canal, officials said.

Holsinger told me that his family's water right is more than a century old, but that a downstream neighbor's is older: "If the senior wasn't getting all his water, he would call the water-rights commissioner, who would call us and say we had to turn off our head gate" — a valve that diverts water from a stream, in their case for irrigation.

Holsinger told me that his family's water right is more than a century old, but that a downstream neighbor's is older: "If the senior wasn't getting all his water, he would call the water-rights commissioner, who would call us and say we had to turn off our head gate"—a valve that diverts water from a stream, in their case for irrigation.

But farmers who rely on the federal irrigation project have opened the head gates four times since.

In the last four months, irate farmers have also pried open the canal head gates four times, allowing water to flow into the parched canal.

Protesters yelled as the officials, from the Bureau of Reclamation, also began dismantling the head gates' operating mechanism so that they could not be opened again.

Farmers protesting water cutoffs in the Klamath Basin have begun to build an underground pipeline that they say will draw water of the Upper Klamath Lake and bypass the government-controlled head gates to the irrigation project.

The federal Bureau of Reclamation is planning a $5 million renovation to increase security at the head gates of Klamath Basin's irrigation district and install fish screens to allow greater flexibility in maintaining water levels in Upper Klamath Lake.