Sentence examples for maintain a dam from inspiring English sources

Authority was given to the defendants by name to erect and maintain a dam across Kinloch creek, with a proviso that they should be liable for all such damages as might be established in any court of competent jurisdiction by any landowner claiming that his land had been damaged by reason of the erection of the dam.

The BCPA merely allows the government to "construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon".

But maintaining a dam is expensive — and much less popular than building one.

At a point slightly north of Washington, Waterbury maintains a dam and a tunnel, through which water is diverted to a reservoir and then city water treatment plants.

According to former Iraqi officials who worked on the project, successive teams of geologists reached the same conclusion: no matter where they looked, the prevalence of gypsum would make maintaining a dam difficult.

Most of the villagers come from families that sustained life through agriculture for generations, but these days, many in Talo Chipla are employed to maintain a hydroelectric dam that was installed nearby.

The river is used by Bristol Water, who maintain a series of dams and ponds which supply the nearby Cheddar Reservoir, via a 137 cm diameter pipe that takes water just upstream of the Rotary Club Sensory Garden, a public park in the gorge opposite Jacob's Ladder.

Litter sizes were kept between six and eight pups per nursing dam to maintain a similar postnatal intake during the suckling period.

And those who operate the dams must also maintain a keen awareness of environmental considerations, especially the best flow rates in the rivers for salmon.

The minimal discharge to maintain a water level of 1.7 m for navigation (this means 300 m3/s released in the navigation channel from Nakhon Sawan to the Chao Phraya dam, and 80 m3/s downstream of the dam) cannot be maintained because large amounts of water are diverted from the river for dry season irrigation in the northern and central regions.

While the Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China maintains a database on dams in China, it is not released to the public.