Sentence examples for height of the river from inspiring English sources

Most frequently, the height of the river level (stage) correlates well with the water discharge.

Using the floodway should reduce the height of the river above it by several feet.

This is a very dumb idea.' " Shortly afterward, House says, he came upon two Corps engineers bickering about the height of the river.

Opening the gaps at Birds Point allows as much as 550,000 cubic feet of water per second to be diverted from the Mississippi's main flow, lowering the height of the river and taking pressure off the levees.

They sat before a hut and drank milky tea, and as they talked of the rains, the height of the river, their children, Altman looked around and marvelled at the compact village and the sheltering trees, the way the sunlight speckled the ground.

The FloodSafe mechanism for warning people is then: A) river level sensors measure the height of the river, B) a mathematical model at the central processing center determines when the flood danger threshold has been crossed, C) an automatic radio signal is sent to a community's emergency committee, and D) the committee warns its community by sounding an alarm.

The simulator also takes in data from another project from the conference, called CityDashboard, to feed in live levels of things like air pollution and the height of the River Thames.

Gen. WALSH: Well, what we're looking for is the height of the--height of the water as it--as it comes in off the watershed and goes into the river.

Now the levees need to be rebuilt to their original height, Mr. James, of the river commission, said.

Actually, given the height of the bridge and the river's depth and current, scaffolding is almost technically impossible to implement.

The few experiments that have been conducted on erosion by plucking highlight the importance of block protrusion height above the river bed, and the dominance of block sliding and toppling at knickpoints.