Sentence examples for the main dam from inspiring English sources

Last year a coffer-dam built to protect the main dam during construction was blown up.

To build Belo Monte, builders would have to excavate two huge channels larger than the Panama Canal to divert water from the main dam to the power plant.

On June 6th another milestone will be reached when a 580-metre temporary coffer-dam protecting the just-completed final stretch of the main dam will be blown up.

While Mr. Serafini and his team are still working on proposals, the likeliest solutions include blasting a much bigger spillway out of bedrock adjacent to the main dam and using the excavated rock to build a buttress — essentially an entirely new dam — downstream from the auxiliary dam.

The central cross-section of this model was extrapolated over the full length of the main dam profile.

Concrete sills or roughness elements commonly are placed at the downstream ends of aprons to further slow the flow that passes over the main dam.

Since this would do nothing to improve the flow in the middle reaches, the plan also calls for removing some of the main dams and canals there.

This conflict is particularly evident in years with less rainfall when the main dams in the basin are not able to store enough water to supply the demand during the dry season (Molle 2002).

But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the six main dams, has resisted this strategy, torn as it is between the interests of barge traffic, farmers, river communities, and environmentalists.

The three main dams that supply La Paz and El Alto are no longer fed by runoff from glaciers and have almost run dry.

Work was completed in 1982 on the main gravity dam, 643 feet (196 metres) high and 4,045 feet (1,233 metres) long, spanning the Paraná.