Sentence examples for the main dams from inspiring English sources

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).

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.

This calibration was controlled by the piezometric levels measured along the main dam section (see blue level at P2_3, P3_4, P4_4 and P5_3 in Figure 12a).

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.

The comparison of piezometer data collected (from September 2010 until September 2012) along the main dam section with the reservoir level (Figure 8) shows that the latter had a clear influence on the piezometric levels in the dam.

The design of the BMHC creates three distinctly altered segments: a flooded section upstream of the main dam, a middle section between the dam and the main powerhouse that will be dewatered, and a downstream section subject to flow alteration from powerhouse discharge.