Sentence examples for tributary dam from inspiring English sources
Tributary dam bypassing in the Lower MOR basin could increase mud supply to the MRD by 100 200 Mt y−1 within 1 2 decades.
Lower Sesan 2's impact on fisheries would be one to two orders of magnitude greater than that of any other tributary dam; on its own, Lower Sesan 2 is predicted to reduce migratory fish biomass by over 9 percent, half the total impact of building all 26.
Eleven large hydropower dams on the main Mekong River, and 120 tributary dams, are planned over the next 20 years.
The Corps remained committed to the argument that tributary dams and reservoirs and downstream spillways would create more problems than they would solve.
Full buildout of all 26 dams would reduce migratory fish biomass by nearly 20 percent across the whole Mekong basin (remember, this is just the tributary dams; the 11 proposed main-stem dams could have twice the impact).
We organized a review and synthesis of the growing research in sustainable river basin design around four spatial decisions: Is it better to build fewer mainstem dams or more tributary dams?
It involves building 16 dams on four of the country's largest rivers, creating five tributary dams, the raising of 87 irrigation dams that are already in place; reinforcing hundreds of kilometres of riverbank and 570 million cubic metres worth of dredging.
Rapid mobilization to shunt fine-grained sediments past as many as 50 Lower MOR tributary dams in several U.S. states will undoubtedly require as much regional coordination and funding in the 21st century as the monumental effort it took to build the dams in the last century.
The SEA report recommended keeping the mainstem of the Irrawaddy River (and that of the parallel Salween River) as free-flowing, and focusing hydropower development on a set of tributary dams that would have lower impacts.
Tributaries dammed earlier this year are flowing again, and the summer passed without a fish kill.
