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A weir in the dike at the southern end of the Newfoundland Mountains regulated the level of water in the basin, and it sometimes returned salty water from the evaporation basin into the main body of the Great Salt Lake.
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A skimming device at the effluent weir prevented loss of most of these light solids.
Lock 1 and weir at Blanchetown, South Australia | Blanchetown
Others were replaced by a footbridge when the weir was removed as at Hart's Weir Footbridge.
This required the creation of fish passes on some weirs such as on the Dock feeder weir and the demolition of others such as at Corlannau weir.
A Thames Barrier flood defence closure is triggered when a combination of high tides forecast in the North Sea and high river flows at the tidal limit at Teddington weir indicate that water levels would exceed in central London.
Because the river is tidal from Teddington weir all the way through London, this is only a problem at high tide, which prevents the floodwater from escaping out to sea.
Captured as a youth by Irish pirates while fishing at sea, he is said to have escaped by using a wooden buckler for a boat ; he landed at the fishing weir of Elffin, one of the sons of Urien ( all medieval Welsh sources, however, make Elffin the son of Gwyddno Garanhir ).
The clubhouse is located next to the weir at Skerton.
There is a weir at Billingford, and Billingford Windmill is situated a little to the north of the river.
Beyond Billingford Bridge the River Dove, flowing northwards from Eye, joins on the southern bank, the Mid Suffolk Footpath crosses, and the river drops below the contour at another weir.
The weir and sluice were rebuilt in 1963 at a cost of £ 12, 714.
It runs south from Audley, roughly following the Hacking River upstream from the weir for a distance of about to its end, where it meets the main sealed road through the park ( there is limited parking at the southern end ).
The original weir, constructed in 1934 at the top of the falls, is visible from the station lookout.
Chalmore Lock, a summer or low-water lock and weir, was built at Chalmore Hole, Wallingford in 1838, However, much of the time the fall was only 18 inches, and the lock was open at both ends.
As the removal of the lock and weir meant that this was the longest clear stretch of the upper river, it was an ideal site for rowing, and so the Oxford University Boat Club which had long trained here built a boathouse at Chalmore in 2006.
The Pequossette built a fishing weir to trap herring at the site of the current Watertown dam.
The Raritan River forms the northern boundary of the borough and is met by the Millstone River which forms the eastern boundary of the borough, where a weir exists at the confluence of the rivers which is used for water intake purposes by New Jersey American Water.
A feeder canal, navigable to Llangollen, was constructed from Trevor to tap water from the River Dee at Llantysilio ( at the weir called " Horseshoe Falls ").
Dams across the river were built at Waldersea and Guyhirne, and an underwater weir was constructed below the bridge at Wisbech.
weir and southern
After a heavy rain the weir floods, closing the road and forcing the residents of Bundeena to drive an extra 30 kilometres to the southern end of the park if they wish to drive to Sydney.
After a short distance, two channels are created by a weir, the southern one still called the River Maun, and both proceed eastwards, before turning northwards near Markham Moor roundabout on the A1 road, and joining again to form the River Idle.
weir and end
A weir will increase the depth of a shallow stretch, and the required lock will either be built in a gap in the weir, or at the downstream end of an artificial cut which bypasses the weir and perhaps a shallow stretch of river below it.
A new bridge, weir and spillway were built at the southeastern end of the reservoir.
One of the main functions of the weir was to put an end to the appearance of unsightly mud flats at low tide.
It opened in June 1811 and the weir was completed by the end of that year.
In the 1970s a Citroën Dyane crashed through the railings at the Streatley end of the bridge landing on a concrete weir 16 feet below.
Melbourne Water have undertaken works from the end of 2010 to replace the weir and construct a new fishway to address this issue.
The self-acting doors were replaced by a sluice in the 1860s, which effectively brought navigation to an end, and the sluice was replaced by a pumping station in 1966, which removed the need for the overfall weir.
A weir at the western ( Bryn Aber ) end of the beach regulates the lagoon's water level.
weir and Mountains
The first Australian fishsteps were built when the current concrete weir was built at the beginning of the Nepean Gorge, an anticendant entrenched meander caused by the slow uplift during the Blue Mountains orogeny carved down through the Hawkesbury sandstone ~ 50Mya.
weir and regulated
The lake level has been regulated since the construction of the control weir where the lake discharges into the Blue Nile, which regulates the flow to the Blue Nile Falls ( Tis Abbai ) and hydro-power station.
weir and level
The weir across the Yamuna was the first attempted in Upper India upon a foundation of fine sand ; it is about 800-yard long, and rises seven-feet above the summer level of the river.
A weir was constructed near Fullers Bridge which converted the middle section of the river from tidal salt-water to a fresh-water area with constant water level suitable for recreational use in rowing boats and canoes.
Punts and canoes can be manhandled around the weir above the Mill Pool by means of the rollers, a slipway from lower to upper level.
This involved the necessity for the weir at Beeston Rylands to maintain the water level to supply the canal through to Trent Bridge.
When a stretch of river is made navigable a lock is required to bypass an obstruction such as a rapid, dam, or mill weir — because of the change in river level across the obstacle.
The level of the water is measured at a designated point behind a hydraulic structure ( a weir or flume ) using various means ( bubblers, ultrasonic, float, and differential pressure are common methods ).
Mill ponds provide a watermill with the power it requires, using the difference in water level above and below the weir to provide the necessary energy.
A weir that causes a large change of water level behind it, as compared to the error inherent in the depth measurement method, will give an accurate indication of the flow rate.
Upon completion of Ardnacrusha, the weir at Athlone was modified and brought under ESB control, and a new weir built at the mouth of Lough Allen to further regulate water levels ( the weir at Killaloe was removed, as Lough Derg's water level is now controlled by Parteen weir itself ).
Normally the level of the river is several feet below the level of the canal, and the river is carried in a tunnel under the Castlefield canal basin, reappearing at Potato Wharf, where it is supplemented by excess canal water draining into a circular weir.
Completed in 1994 at a cost of £ 14m, the weir controls the level of water upstream.
The weir is a series of massive steel barriers which are raised as the tide retreats so as to keep the river at an artificially constant level.
Because the maximum level in the pound is normally controlled by a bywash weir at the lower lock, some of the water from the upper lock may be lost over it, and if the lower lock has a deeper fall, there is a net loss of level when a boat passes through the pound.
The weir is almost level with the lock and runs straight across to the opposite bank from the other side of the lock island.
Outram also proposed to save some £ 4000 by dispensing with the aqueduct and, instead, building a weir to raise the river level to form a basin adjacent to the Morledge, with locks connecting it to each branch of the canal.
It is just downstream of the automatic sluice where the river drops from + 11. 2m to + 7. 41m above mean sea level, the navigation bears left through the Hampstead Rd Canal, and the Hampstead Lock, the main stream drops over the weir and sluice and is joined here by the River Teise ( Lesser Teise ) and both pass under Twyford Bridge.
As the tide ebbs a sill or weir prevents the level dropping below a certain point, meaning that the ships in the dock remain afloat.
The weir that maintains the water level in the quay is still named " Trew's Weir " after the canal's builder.
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