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A plan was announced to dam the Whanganui River, an action that would submerge several cemeteries and sacred sites.
The dam was silted up because the surrounding roads had not been properly surfaced, says resident engineer Cass Bhamiee.
A dam is an artificial barrier constructed across a stream channel to impound water.
The effluent gets blended with the floods impounded by the dam and the water quality becomes slightly improved.
The dam made hydroelectric power possible by forcing water through giant turbines.
Paddling over the six sets of rapids created by the dam removal, you think of the blueback herring that spawn in fast whitewater.
A hydroelectric dam keeps the water flow constant through fall, but spring melts really make the rapids sing.
On the left is the smooth, clean surface of the new dam that has turned part of the Colorado River into a lake.
Just before freeze-up, a local highway maintenance crew had rifted a colony's dam to prevent the flooding of a road.
But although they put up stiles across the new fence, walkers and residents feared it would mean access to the well used dam would be restricted.
Stocks began to decline in the early part of this century due first to overharvesting, and later from effects of dam construction and pollution.
In 1979 he inspired the farmers of Uttara Kannada to oppose a dam that would have drowned their holdings and taken much forest with it.
This was investigated and a proposal for a dam costing Rs.3.72 crore was given up as unremunerative.
This year we viewed the astounding structure of a hydroelectric dam built across the Danube.
Go through the gateway on the left-hand side of the dam and follow the reservoir access road down through a small woodland plantation.
A Nepalese parliamentary committee has said the construction of the dam and barrage on the Rapti River is a violation of the international law.
The life of the dam is estimated to be not more than 30 years because of heavy sedimentation.
The dam itself covers 145 hectares at capacity and can store almost nine megalitres of water.
The city's sewage treatment plant has suffered three fires and the emergency holding dam will overflow after tonight.
Authorities say that so far the timber dam is holding but it could send six feet of water rushing into downtown.
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The buildings are long gone, but some foundations are still there, as well as the nearby mill stream and part of a dam and sluiceway.
There, on January 18, 1910, the Shoshone dam project was completed, and the dry Wyoming land began to turn green.
At the dam there are hundreds of woodswallows congregating for their drink and preparing to roost.
These locations are designated by their distance in kilometers seaward of the dam that marks the upper boundary of tidal influence.
One big advantage of fishing above the dam is that it is still water and offers the opportunity to fish with a float.
Yet both dam projects would decimate the very scrubland the lynx depends on.
Em was beginning to think that nothing she could do would dam the flood or lighten the pressure that pinned her arms to her sides.
Painfully, torturedly, he bit his lip to keep the stream of reproaches and denials from bursting through the dam of his control.
A dam controls the continuous flow of water in a river, whereas stopbanks may well be alongside a river that has no water in it at all.
First he climbs up the sheer rock of the falls and builds a small dam with stones and mud.
The dam has been lined with summertime fishos wetting a line this week as the holiday period rolls on.
The debate is fundamentally an argument about the flow of immigrants and whether it behooves us to try and dam it off or absorb it.
We're hearing lots of discussion about plans to dam the inland rivers, to dam the Cooper Creek, for example.
Once a year, like clockwork, the Old Delhi dam is opened, flooding the dry riverbeds.
But a dam upriver would have caused greater flooding in the Raspaculo, where the threatened keel-billed motmot, a bright-green songbird, nests.
The early 20th century dam is a splendid structure, with ten overflow arches and a castellated valve tower.
Two tours on Saturday will take visitors along the great castellated dam wall and beneath it on an ancient public thoroughfare.
A low dam on the river creates a small lake that provides decent fishing for bass and sunfish.
In 1895 it was decided that the northern end of the Reserve could be walled to form a dam to supply the needs of the rapidly growing town.
The dam raised the water level by 54 feet and created a three-mile-long reservoir holding around 9,000 million gallons.
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Moodley says it will be located on the northern side of the dam wall and will be fenced.
Select a material for the porous dam that can be easily cleaned by scraping the surface.
The dam was built between 1912 and 1915 and relies on rainfall in a catchment area covering 407.5 square kilometres.
They also argue the dam would damage the environment and agriculture in river catchment areas.
In case the dam collapses due to an earthquake or any other fault, the devastation will be unimaginable.
He stood on a dam in Liwonde, known locally as a barrage, which regulates the river for the Nkula plant.
During the summer months, the reserve experiences a large influx of migrant species, particularly in the thornveld and dam shoreline habitats.
Emergency crews and dive teams are standing by, and authorities say that water levels behind the dam are dropping.
The town went into a steep decline after the construction of a dam left the beach waters cold enough for trout, but too cold for summer visitors.
Wearing a life vest, Ma took a boat to inspect the pitifully parched riverbeds of the funnel-shaped dam at the reservoir.
Later in the day when the floodgates of the hydroelectric dam upstream close, the water will slowly fall.
It was reasoned that the completed dam would undeniably supply electricity and therefore be of economic benefit in the broadest sense.
To keep blood from flowing backward, veins have built-in one-way valves that temporarily dam up the river of blood.
The plan is to restore the principal garden features including the lost lake, the massive dam wall and the ornamental fruit and flower garden.
The bypass will also cut across the flood plain of the river, effectively forming a dam to natural drainage.
The present situation is that the dam is already overflowing and it is obvious that more rain is coming.
Ultimately the force of water, assisted by the pressure of wind, is so great that the sudd dam will burst.
When material is to be used to form an embankment or dam or to raise ground levels it is important to attain a dense condition.
The unit is made of heavy galvanised metal and can stay submerged in a river or dam for long periods without any corrosion.
This natural dam was consolidated and a power station installed in more recent times.
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At least 12 birds, mostly chicks and dabchicks, living on the dam and its surrounds have died from the poisoning effects of the oil spill.
Water from this melting is trapped and creates an ice dam on the roof, gutters and downspouts.
They have joined a campaign calling on investment banks to cut off funding for environmentally devastating dam projects.
Although the dam held, it sustained damage to its concrete core and spillway.
Bluntly, is the dam bursting and does a really damaging and all-encompassing recession beckon?
Much of the area we saw is due to be flooded when a huge new dam is opened to provide hydro electric power.
According to Pakistan, the Baglihar dam would deprive it of more than 7,000 cusecs water a day destroying its agriculture.
Soon we reached a fine old track where pipits flurried on a fence and then we reached the high dam wall where oystercatchers skimmed.
A good population of the Neuse River waterdog, a large salamander, still remains in the Little River, and dam removal increased its habitat.
The source of the river is a small dam in the Willem Conradie Park in Florida Hills.
All my emotions were bursting forth as if the dam that had been holding them back had been destroyed.
I'll not describe that one, either, except to say it was like a dam bursting.
The pain and agony she kept within her ruptured forth, much like an overflowing dam that finally burst under excruciating pressure.
I've got a feeling the dam has burst, and that, as usual, the media has missed the story.
Hensen says absorbent fibres successfully soaked up the bulk of the oil that covered the dam like a sheet last week.
External changes include three air intakes and a lipped front air dam integrated into the front bumper with two circular front fog-lamps.
We have been at the dam in years gone by when the roar of water pouring over the spillway was deafening, and could even be heard at the car park.
Construction is expected to start on the first part of the dam wall, which is the foundation for the second spillway, by the end of May.
It had been extinguished in some parts of the Ord Project Area with respect to the dam area and spillways and irrigation areas.
That includes bringing back the 10-acre lake built in the 1740s, but drained in 1922 when the dam wall was breached.
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Restoration of a lake that drained away when a dam wall was breached is a major part of the plan.
Now the engineers have proudly announced the discovery of no fewer than five clumps of louseworts safely beyond the proposed dam site.
Then about 150 years ago the glacial dam burst, loosing a 100-foot, landscape-scouring wave that wiped out entire villages.
They will build a dam for the cattle to drink from, and they will fertilize the soil with manure.
Alternatively if you do not cross the dam you will see a dirt road leading down to a picnic and b.b.q. area.
The Archimedean screw turns as falling water from the top of the dam flows through it, activating a turbine and generating power.
However, if the dam lacks adequate width or height above water level, a problem may develop.
On the left side there was a steep drop as the dam rose at least a few hundred feet up into the sky.
The moment our lips touched, it was like a dam breaking and he grabbed me, kissing me hard, pushing me back against the bookcase.
We're parked atop a vertigo-inducing earthen dam in the San Juan Basin, in northwestern New Mexico's arid sandstone and sagebrush country.
A weir is a dam placed across a river to raise or divert the water, or a fence in a stream to catch or retain fish.
We've put pumps in to aerate the water and feed back oxygen into the dam for the fish to survive.
Suction occurs when there is a hole or fissure in the dam wall on the upstream side, and it means death for divers.
The proposal to add 18 inches to the dam could help rehabilitate the salmon fish stocks by artificially inducing the returning salmon to spawn.
The guerrillas sabotaged a dam producing a third of the country's electricity, knocking out power in the nation's capital.
Unbeknownst to them, the dam was constructed over five disused mine shafts, which led into the underground workings of an old mine.
In earlier testimony, I likened this process to water backing up against a dam that is finally breached.
It was held that, on the basis of the evidence presented to the court, the project for the dam was unsound.
After years of planning a new dam was built across the Manasquan river during the early years of the nineties.
Several concrete components of the dam will also be upgraded and strengthened by adding concrete for reinforcement.
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When he did, he noticed that the dam was built half on land and half on water.
Such a dam would turn the lake into a reservoir to store irrigation water for use in the lower Yellowstone Valley.
Hudson River tributaries are tidal up to the first natural barrier or dam and these tidal tributary mouths have high biological diversity.
In 1968, a rock-filled dam with a flood control gate system was built in the New Brunswick, as a road connection and to protect diked farmland from flooding.
The dam supplies water to millions of people in the Pretoria area, but the unicity has assured people that areas receiving piped municipal water were not at risk.
Without seeing it Jess knew the water level of the dam would be down.
The guards had fallen back farther than he had hoped they would, and his rush from the chapel hadn't gotten here in time to dam the enemy up further back.
Partick thought they had scored, but it was declared offside and it was never going to spark a comeback or probably even dam the flood of Livingston attacks.
Guys were getting big netfuls at the base of the dam with little effort.
Some of the subtle alterations include a tailpipe covered by the rear air dam as well as enlarged air intakes to provide more air for the intercooler.
Backfilling with the clay soil that you removed is actually like building a dam to keep excess water from permeating the root ball of your newly planted tree.
Basically, it's just a dam built across a bay, which opens as the tide is coming in, and then closes and traps the accumulated water as the tide moves out.
It is not the mean river flow that determines the yield from a dam on a river, but the duration and magnitude of sequences of below average flows.
In order to evaluate the growth of extensile cracks, two series of compression tests with samples from volcanic cohesive soil obtained from a low fill dam were performed.
The drama in Luddenden, Calderdale, followed a night of torrential rain which had left a mill dam dangerously overflowing when debris partially blocked a culvert.
Filling materials in an earth dam should be stable against seepage.
Thousands of gallons of water gushed over the top of the dam downstream of Jowler Mill, causing damage to the front of the dam as stones sheared off.
Bad farming practices, soil erosion, water abstraction, and the building of dam walls that prevent its upstream spawning migration are just some of the threats it faces.
Large-scale water power and dam construction has brought big changes.
The dam was moaning, opening, unlocking a furtive, unknown world beneath.
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The government has mobilized military units to clear driftwood from dam drains, which could slow drainage of water from reservoirs if another typhoon lashes the country.
The ceremony at the Nieuwe Kerk on dam Square should be a model of stately splendor.
That little yelp was the crack that burst the dam Amy had built.
If the dam does burst, the world will probably be the poorer for it.
For example, he added, many highly valuable Western hostages are held in an ISIS prison beneath a dam near Raqqa.
The scheme will not require a dam but rather a wall that provides a constant head of water and which will be designed to utilise the flow of the river.
He reasoned that constructing a dam would enable water to be stored for irrigation in the dry season, and flooding could be prevented at other times.
When the family was fine, or when a cruel employee at the dam was behind the flood, God was left out of the explanation.
Flood prevention workers continue to patrol the dam around the clock.
The idea of raising the dam is not only a figary, it's foolery!
Over the centuries, monks and feudal retainers applied their skills to enlarging the earthen dam and installing wood or stone conduits to carry water to neighbouring fields.
To prevent the water from the Busrah River from flooding the many establishments of the base, a huge bund or dam has been built south and southeast of the town.
Because of the split in the front bumper, the car won't be able to sit as low and drag, or the front dam will be worn off, resulting in a massive loss of downforce.
Cassidy placed a firm kiss on his cheeks and ushered herself out of the door before the tears could break through the mental dam and she began blubbering again.
Hansen says large parts of the dam have already been cleaned up, using cotton wool-like absorbent fibres to literally soak up the oil that covers the dam.
Nature's transitions often defy our best attempts at classification, and besides, the enormous dam in front of us had changed this land inestimably.
Two individuals were included from broiler sire line B, brown-egg-layer line D, broiler dam line D, Icelandic landrace, and captive red jungle fowl G. g. gallus.
It was as though a dam had been filled to the point of breaking, and this moment was the instant of peace before the dam burst and sent forth the great flood.
A dam now in place on the Thai side of the line prevents the railway from being reconstructed in its entirety, he explains.
Always stay away from the dam side and use the time to hang fenders on the side of the boat where the lock house is and watch the light by the lock house.
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The water level in Harangi dam near Kushalnagar has also increased.
The event was aired on local BBC television, and the dam of emotion burst.
Eventually he came to the railroad trestles that crossed the Androscoggin River at the top of the falls over the small dam that focused water into the canal.
When you decide that certain feelings are too threatening to experience, you cut off your life energy in some way, just like a logjam will dam a river's flow.
The next big project by the family was to build a dam to generate electricity to use to milk the cows and provide lighting for the house and sheds.
Humans, too, are taking advantage of the increased recreational activities afforded by removal of the dam, with many river enthusiasts running the river in canoes and kayaks.
Verbasle, the dam of Florida Derby winner High Fly, was euthanized on August 16 at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington due to effects of laminitis.
But when we greatly increase our future capacity for the city by raising the dam wall another 13.5 metres, this will take capacity up to 296,000 megalitres.
The Afon Tryweryn is a dam released river, allowing water to flow when other rivers are running dry, providing a year round white water venue.
Amsterdam's name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the city's origin around a dam in the river Amstel.
Salvage project of the archaeological heritage of the Iksu and Carchemish dam reservoirs.
Since the dam was completed in 2006 the natural spring that once fed Pipola has dried up.
The ERD project has been a major concern for Egypt as it fears the dam will affect its share of the Nile river's water.
The Alta controversy started in the 1970s when Statkraft planned to dam the Alta River.
His dam is a full sister to the successful stud dog Batties Whisper, and is from the same family as Irish Derby winner Manx Treasure.
His dam Revella has an exceptional pedigee having Alme Z, Ibrahim, Ramiro, Landgraf and Ladykiller.
She is the first foal of the Diesis mare Annona, whose dam Arsaan is a stakes-winning half-sister to Hollywood Gold Cup victor Desert Wine.
In the Siesartis River, the distribution of redds bellow and above the dam also significantly varied over the monitoring area.
An unusual attraction is the salmon ladder, by Pitlochry Dam, which helps the fish by-pass the dam and get into Loch Faskally.
She is by Haltcliffe Favori and out of the homebred dam Netherhall Bacardi, a Usant daughter.
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While the pups in group N were left inseparate with the dam in standard cage.
The area was not noted for its marshiness by Colonial era observers, but the great dam impoundment does create such an impression today.
Water inflow in the dam was recorded at 26,000 cusecs while outflow was recorded as 45,000 cusecs.
In the land between the houses and the mill dam there are eight rows of tenters and a tiny figure is visible tentering a length of cloth.
Streams above Kielder reservoir are also stocked and the young fish are caught in a smolt trap and taken around the dam for release.
The trainer's Sun Central finished second to Sir Michael Stoute's runner at Ascot last time and Haggas also trained Gospel Choir's dam Chorist.
The proposed generating station includes a dam with a water intake and penstock, powerhouse and tailrace channel.
Bulaxie, in turn, is the dam of Group 2 Premio Lydia Tesio winner Claxon, who also won the Lupe, Masaka and Steventon Stakes.
His dam is a halfsister to the smart sprinter Goldream and he looks like 33,000 euro well spent.
It was a bad race, but his dam is a halfsister to Fame And Glory and he was always going to improve for the step up in trip.
Dropped to five furlongs for his last start, he was always going to need further as his dam is a halfsister to Halicarnassus.
We also built and installed a hydraulic ram that used water from the dam to pump a portion of that water to buildings on campus.
Sober-eyed commentators safe in their television studios interviewed engineers about the chances that the rest of the dam could go.
I got one cousin-brother. He dam rich. I speak him for the ten thousand rupees.
The flow eroded the retaining ridge, causing the rock dam to fail and releasing lake water into the Atlantic.
For the teeth that were salvable, we placed an amalgam and used a rubber dam to help isolate the teeth and to control the saliva flow.
The dam gave way after failing to withstand the pressure of waste from the treatment of apatites and phosphorites with sulfuric acid.
Its concrete buttress dam is the tallest concrete dam in the UK, with a height of 72 metres and a length of 230 metres.
The area around Clywedog dam is now a popular leisure destination offering scenic walks and wildlife watching.
In a TV ad for the Land Rover Defender, a Defender 90 is seen winching up the face of the dam under its own power.
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Freshwater elvers travel upstream and are forced to climb up obstructions, such as weirs, dam walls, and natural waterfalls.
The dam was built to withstand the seasonal flash floods surging down the valley.
An ice dam is a blockage from the movement of a glacier which may produce a proglacial lake.
Deposition can occur due to dam emplacement that causes the river to pool, and deposit its entire load or due to base level rise.
Its history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte river, after which people settled around it for safety.
The construction of the dam and the military port has brought an important flow of workers and soldiers.
The main source of irrigation water is the river Nile of which the flow is controlled by the high dam at Aswan.
Typically a dam is constructed on a river, creating an artificial lake behind it.
Near Barrage Cavagnac, there is a hydroelectric dam that has created the artificial lake Lalla Takerkoust.
Another type of sediment dam results from the presence of salt domes, as are common along the Texas and Louisiana passive margin.
When the dam broke, an outburst flood swept downstream, leaving deposits as far away as Bonn.
It is hoped that a new dam in Orugu, for which China committed financing in 2009, will alleviate water scarcity.
The project was launched in the early 1970s, when the first dam was completed.
Air circulation tubes carry frigid winter air into the core of the dam where frozen earth stabilizes the structure.
Vocal communication between lambs and their dam declines to a very low level within several weeks after parturition.
Modern water turbines use water flowing through a dam to drive an electric generator.
The slag separated, and floated on the molten iron, and was removed by lowering a dam at the end of the trough.
The amount of concrete used in the construction of the dam is estimated at 16 million cubic meters over 17 years.
This is pumped to a tailings dam or settling pond, where the water is reused or evaporated.
The dam was initially the most common coin in Akbar's time, before being replaced by the rupee as the most common coin in succeeding reigns.
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It was drained in 2011, the dam removed and the valley returned to its original form.
Haweswater is a 2002 novel by British writer Sarah Hall, set in Mardale at the time of the building of the dam and flooding of the valley.
A Keswick bank manager objected because the dam would be vulnerable to a waterspout, experienced in St John's Vale many times.
Boring of the tunnel under Dunmail Raise was completed in July 1890, and work then began on the dam at the north end of Thirlmere.
The dam in Keppel Cove is still in place, but water now leaks through its base.
The remains of the dam in Brown Cove can be seen, but again water leaks freely through it.
A reservoir usually means an enlarged natural or artificial lake, storage pond or impoundment created using a dam or lock to store water.
A dam constructed in a valley relies on the natural topography to provide most of the basin of the reservoir.
When a major storm approaches, the dam operators calculate the volume of water that the storm will add to the reservoir.
Accurate weather forecasts are essential so that dam operators can correctly plan drawdowns prior to a high rainfall event.
For RTS to occur, there must be a seismic structure near the dam or its reservoir and the seismic structure must be close to failure.
Further up the Tees, the path climbs beside the waterfall of Cauldron Snout below the dam of Cow Green Reservoir.
A new dam was built at Winscar between 1972 and 1975, and replaced the earlier earth dam.
Water supply to the dam was controlled by shuttles which could be raised to allow water to enter the head goit.
The mill building was separated from its dam by the building of the railway.
The dam remains full, overflowing through a culvert which passes beneath the railway.
In 1985 the DPA used funds from a bequest to purchase 50 acres of land where the dam of a reservoir at Swincombe would have to be.
The spillover from the dam due to the heavy rains will run down this channel and harmlessly dump into that river, we hope.
We stood on the bank of the dam surveying the squooshy wallow of mud. Jonah scooped up a fistful.
The canal systems at the NMP EcoLab each had a check dam separating the canals from the water bodies upon which the lodges were sited.
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His dam was a violent crib-biter and a wind-sucker and I took her to the sales but couldn't get rid of her.
Roman builders were the first to realize the stabilizing effect of arches and buttresses, which they integrated into their dam designs.
Good examples of job production would be a specially designed wedding ring or made-to-measure suits or the Yangtze dam in China.
However, Ethiopia is in the process of constructing a large 6,450 MW hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river.
In 1936, Italy annexed Ethiopia, building infrastructure to connect major cities, and a dam providing power and water.
The building of a dam in the Anstel, a brook flowing west of Kerkrade, has led to the formation of a reservoir with an area of about 20 ha.
The hydroelectric dam at Churchill Falls is the secondlargest underground power station in the world.
After the construction of the hydroelectric dam at Churchill Falls in 1970, the Smallwood Reservoir has flooded much of the old hunting land.
Construction of a large hydroelectric dam project at Muskrat Falls began in 2012 by Nalcor Energy and the Province of Newfoundland.
The motorway's opening on 20 December 1970 was dependent on completion of the dam.
The water tower of Lake Vyrnwy, Wales, constructed around the same time as its dam, at the end of the 19th century.
A small dam in the Kaveri river delta, built some 1,500 years before, and known as the Grand Anicut, was one such indigenous work in South India.
I have been working like a dam mule this morning and just found time to kite you.
McEnery gave Red Rum his name by taking the last three letters of the names of his dam and sire respectively.
Because of concerns about dead, rotting fish affecting water quality, SPU will limit the number of salmon above the diversion dam to about 1,000 chinook and 4,500 coho.
The dam of a six-figure yearling this year by Excellent Art, Rock Dove is in foal to the great stayer Yeats and comes from the family of champion filly Marling.
Canterbury Pilgrim produced Swynford, Rosedrop was the dam of Gainsborough, Keystone threw Keysoe, Brownhylda had Firdaussi, and Rose Of England gave Chulmleigh.
The materials used for the construction of the small dam comprise reinforced concrete along with 100-metre-long spillways and 10-metre tall docks.
Sired by Blelack Digger and out of a homebred dam going back to Tullygarley Attaboy, he was bred and exhibited by Gareth Roberts, Llangadfan, Welshpool.
Undrowned, unducked, as safe from the perils of the broad lake as we had come out of the defiles of the rapids, we landed at the carry below the dam at the lake's outlet.
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He ordered the construction of a stronger and taller dyke, with a dam to control the flow of water, thus providing water for irrigation and mitigating the drought problem.
The creation of a dam in a geologically inappropriate location may cause disasters such as 1963 disaster at Vajont Dam in Italy, where almost 2,000 people died.
Before the lake was raised by a dam in the 1930s the small village of Mardale Green stood at the head of the valley, now only revealed in time of drought.
Her dam Claxon had finished fifth at Epsom and her granddam Bulaxie seventh, but connections will hope she can surpass her ancestors after she had captured the Totesport.
The Cordilleran ice sheet produced features such as glacial Lake Missoula, which would break free from its ice dam causing the massive Missoula floods.
Roman dam construction began in earnest in the early imperial period.
Communities directly behind the dam will be inundated by water for much of the year, whereas communities in front of the dam will become more xeric.
The Claerwen dam opened in 1952 and, later, the Clywedog dam, helped create reservoirs to supply the towns and cities of the English West Midlands.
Built in 1913 on the Montreal River, the dam controls the water levels on Bay Lake, and is comprised of 11 sluiceways, 10 piers and two abutments.
The collapse of the dam wall of one of these reservoirs in 1864 resulted in the Great Sheffield Flood, which killed 270 people and devastated large parts of the town.
The valley sides act as natural walls, with the dam located at the narrowest practical point to provide strength and the lowest cost of construction.
Minor winner Nawaiet is a half-sister to 1985 Prix Saint-Alary heroine Fitnah, later the third dam of Grade 3 winner and useful Kentucky sire Cactus Ridge.
After 8 months occurrence of last rainfall, length profile and cross section changes of earthy dam of each six gullies were measured by chorography and survey.
July Cup and Abbaye winner Agnes World, half-sister to Dubai Destination's dam Mysterial, is also by Danzig, who is the grandsire of Desert Style.
During the meeting, Chairman WAPDA Syed Raghib Hussain informed the committee that tender for Kurram Tangi dam would be awarded in December this year.
Sahibah, Begum's unraced daughter by Deputy Minister, is the dam of Flintoff, a useful staying chaser who reached the frame in the Scottish and Midlands Nationals.
The Oaks heroine's dam Newry Beo was a strongly built 70-pounder of only ordinary ability of the Scottish flaps, where her racing career was spent.
On structures, an ice dam is the buildup of ice on a sloped roof which stops melt water from draining properly and can cause damage from water leaks in buildings.
These generating sets may be at the base of the dam or some distance away.
Despite the town's best efforts, the dam inevitably gave way.
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Since then, flood defences have been constructed around the city, including an emergency dam at New Mill on the River Kenwyn and a tidal barrier on the Truro River.
The city's rapid development commenced with the announcement in 1952 that a dam and hydroelectric plant would be built at Bratsk on the Angara River.
In the 21st century, a similar dam have also been proposed, however the aim of the proposal is to preserve the Arctic ice cap against global warming.
Plans to dam the river existed since the early Soviet period.
Some other examples are the perimeter blockade by human chain at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, the blockade of the Franklin River dam site, and the Keystone Pipeline.
The dam provides most of the electricity to the region including Magadan.
A US Navy plan existed which proposed to dam the harbour and set up a seaplane base, but it was abandoned as the war turned in favour of the allies.
Here again, the NIMBYs will try to derail any new dam project.
At one site, Montefurado in Galicia, they appear to have built a dam across the river Sil to expose alluvial gold deposits in the bed of the river.
In the late 1990s, surveys of the mine's hydraulic systems revealed that a large reservoir held back by a dam in an underground working was in poor condition.
I prefer both sire and dam to be well-bred, but a well-bred mare and an underbred horse will produce a faster animal than a thoroughbred horse and an underbred mare.
Gotvand Dam and Power Station in Khoozestan Province is under construction on 25th km of north of Shooshtar City and 12th km of upstream of deviational dam of Gotvand Olia.
When the pipe diameter is large enough, a circular dam can be cut out of the material for fixing in place with the water-soluble adhesive provided.
Mazurka 13th, now owned by Mr. Streator, at ten years old Is dam of eight living calves at single births, and we don't know a cow of her age that can outshow her.
Canoeists can contact the dam company and arrange to be towed around the dams on company trucks, but they must make arrangements specific to the hour, and they cannot be late.
By now, the aqueduct and dam were complete, but under the 1879 Act the roads around Thirlmere had to be completed before any water could be taken from it.
That dam has now gone and the tarn has returned to its natural size.
Rubber dam Reduces exposure of patients to microbes in dental unit water, and reduces the chance of microbes entering root canals during endodontia.
Casting a groundbait feeder and maggots from the dam at Butetown Pond brought Colin Whitehouse a string of small perch to win the Rhymney AS match with 6lb 4oz.
Shoot Out's dam, the winning Pentamerous, is also the dam of 1m4f New Zealand Group 3 winner Cassandra Show and is a half-sister to Group 2-winning miler St Hilarion.
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Mr Delves also paid 2,000gns for a Stonehills gimmer out of a dam by Procters Rooney, and bought half of the 2,600gns shearling ram Strathbogie Whopper from Jim Innes.
The town removed all flashboards from the Bartlett Pond dam and the pond has been significantly drained, according to the town administrator's report.
Just months after Edwards Dam was removed, birds such as ospreys, bald eagles, and kingfishers returned.
At the Shihmen Dam in Taoyuan County, the water level yesterday reached 220m, or 31.9 percent of the reservoir's capacity.
Mr. Dam is a board member and a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, one of the world's oldest and most respected think tanks.
He said the flood plain encroached on to the land, which was near Selby Dam, and was currently under water.
It was while standing in the early dawn at the opening ceremony for the recommissioned Matahina Dam on the Rangitikei River in 1998 that the irony first occurred to me.
We about-face and paddle back against the wind to Hoover Dam.
A confessed music obsessive, Dam perplexed neighborhood kids with his dedication to craft and burgeoning audiophilia.
Army Corps of Engineers began construction of Garrison Dam on the Missouri River.
He ordered it to be burned to prevent it from falling into enemy hands, then he commanded the town of Dam to be burned to the ground as well.
The French fleet, reportedly numbering some 1,700 ships, proceeded first to Gravelines and then to the port of Dam.
In 2007, MMPA was amended to permit the lethal removal of sea lions from salmon runs at Bonneville Dam.
On the Columbia River the Chief Joseph Dam completed in 1955 completely blocks salmon migration to the upper Columbia River system.
Stwlan Dam can be seen in between two of the main mountains in the area, Moelwyn Bach and Moelwyn Mawr.
It was the O'Shaughnessy Dam, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, and Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct that would have the largest effect on San Francisco.
When completed, this Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is slated to be the largest hydroelectric power station on the continent.
He then met European middleweight champion Luc Van Dam in London, whom he knocked out in the first round to seize the European championship.
The road runs from Potsford Dam near Cawston, through the Lawford Road and ending at Newbold Road, near the Avon Valley School.
About 10,000 rainbow trout with clipped adipose fins will be released this week in the McKenzie River between Leaburg Dam and Blue River.

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