Sentence examples for weir was built from inspiring English sources

Don Catchment Rivers Trust said fish had not been able to swim upstream since the weir was built 150 years ago.

Fish had not been able to swim upstream since the weir was built 150 years ago, said Don Catchment Rivers Trust.

To facilitate the transit of the fluvial waters towards the Black Sea, a weir was built at the mouth of Lake Rosulet (1.20 m r MNS).

Radyr Weir was built in 1774 to divert water into a leat to the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works.

A weir was built during 1881 and 1882, and was made to hold approximately two megalitres (530,000 US gallons) of water.

The weir at Frodsham was built in 1785, although it has been altered subsequently.

Northwich railway viaduct spans both the lock cut and the weir stream, and was built in the 1860s.

A small weir made of boulders was built at the base of the ladder, creating a 9 inches jump between the creek and the ladder; however, the boulders were washed away in a severe storm just three months later, making the distance between them over 24 inches.

A structure (weir or tank) with seven sluices (Urdu Satpula) was built on a stream that flowed through the city.

The entrance weir and sluice gate servicing the paper mill was built about 1852.

The first section of the Exeter canal was built in 1566 to allow vessels to avoid a weir built in 1317 by the ninth Earl of Devon to force ships to unload at Topsham, where he would exact a toll.