Sentence examples for wide dam from inspiring English sources

Past Dijon we were on a back road along a canal and came to a wide dam where fishermen's lines dropped forty or fifty feet into clear green water.

Next August, the Xingu river will be closed by a 5km-wide dam.

The 200-foot-wide dam creates Lees Pond, an eight-acre mini-lake in a residential neighborhood just south of the Merritt Parkway.

This year, nets were added to divert fish swimming upriver away from the 10-foot-wide dam spillway and into the adjacent chute, which is slightly more than two feet wide.

Mr. Conklin and others are waiting now to see if alewives will use the ladder, which is slightly more than two feet wide, to bypass the 10-foot-wide dam and reach the river pond, whose placid fresh waters are thought to be ideal for spawning.

Designers say the 3.7-mile-wide dam, slated for completion in 2015, would be able to produce over 11,233 MW of energy, ranking it as the third largest in the world.

A YEAR ago, bulldozers ripped open the 917-foot-wide Edwards dam, which had blocked the Kennebec river in Maine for 162 years.

In adopting several different world-wide published dam safety guidelines, a large number of modelling options have been implemented.

Too few genuine classroom narratives break through to broad audiences, but Frank McCourt bust the dam wide open.

Engineers said that despite many pleas from cities and towns downstream to hold back the water, they instead opened the gates wider when the dam's reservoir reached 122 percent of its planned capacity.

Analysis focuses on a wide range of dam-break type test cases, where Godunov-type flood models have proven very successful.