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An upstream tailings dam consists of trapezoidal embankments being constructed on top but toe to crest of another, moving the crest further upstream.
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upstream and tailings
There are three raised tailings dam designs, the upstream, downstream and centerline, named according to the movement of the crest during raising.
This creates a relatively flat downstream side and a jagged upstream side which is supported by tailings slurry in the impoundment.
However, because of constant siltation over the past several years from mine tailings upstream from Agno River ( due to mine operations in neighboring Benguet Province ), and the overuse of artificial fish feeds, the bangus industry has suffered from fishkill, fewer viable fishponds and lower harvests.
upstream and dam
In many upstream areas cut off from the ocean by dams, sturgeon simply live upstream of the dam.
This dam has locks, but they have not always operated well, and the river has been little used from Khartoum to the port of Kusti, a railroad crossing 319 kilometers upstream.
The ruling Congress government in Andhra Pradesh state attributed the floods to excessive rainfall in the catchment areas of the river upstream of Srisailam dam.
This resulted in an unprecedented volume of water backing up behind Srisailam dam, resulting in floods both upstream of the river, and downstream as well, when all the gates of the dam were opened for several days to bring storage at Srisailam back to normal levels.
* Fast kinds: include river flash floods resulting from convective precipitation ( intense thunderstorms ) or sudden release from an upstream impoundment created behind a dam, landslide, or glacier.
A centerlined dam has sequential embankment dams constructed directly on top of another while fill is placed on the downstream side for support and slurry supports the upstream side.
A spillway is a section of a dam designed to pass water from the upstream side of a dam to the downstream side.
The part upstream of the Rapperswil dam is called Obersee, and is shared between the cantons of St. Gallen and Schwyz.
Due to the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam upstream, the Yenisei never freezes in winter and never exceeds in summer through the city.
Large scale dam construction followed, with the Gezhouba Dam on the Yangtze River near Yichang started in 1970 and completed in 1988 ; the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, further upstream, began in 1993.
These rivers are ' wild ', in that they are not controlled by any dam upstream.
The town flooded in 1982 and suffered extensive damage due to the failure, " after years of disrepair and neglect ", of an earthen dam several miles upstream.
It is said that a group of farmers upstream resented the dam being there, having claimed that it caused flooding of valuable farm land, especially when there was a rise in the river.
The Zalma factory was located just upstream from the mill dam, on the south side of the river, on land known as the Cora Carr property.
Located within the village limits is a hydroelectric dam that is positioned just upstream from the bridge which carries route 812 across the Oswegatchie River.
There is a boat loading / unloading ramp upstream from the dam itself with mid-river water levels varying from 6 to 15 feet.
The Middle Concho River joined the South Concho several miles upstream, but the confluence has been obscured by the Twin Buttes dam.
Despite another major flood in 1951, Congress did not agree to a flood control plan until 1962, when it authorized a project that included levees and a flood control dam on the Kickapoo River upstream of Soldiers Grove near La Farge, Wisconsin.
Just upstream from the intersection between Elk Creek and the Trempealeau is the dam impounding Bugle Lake.
upstream and consists
Myrinet physically consists of two fibre optic cables, upstream and downstream, connected to the host computers with a single connector.
In prokaryotes, the promoter consists of two short sequences at-10 and-35 positions upstream from the transcription start site.
The Port of Melbourne consists of several major man-made docks on the Yarra River and Port Melbourne, including ( from upstream to downstream ):
The dam's hydro powerplant consists of three units that receive water from three different penstocks 1700 feet upstream.
The upstream section consists of a series of river courses connecting a chain of lakes, beginning with Lake Winnipesaukee.
Employees of upstream suppliers are eligible if the product supplied to the primary firm consists 20 % of the production or sales of the secondary workers ’ firm, or their employer ’ s loss of business with the primary firm contributed significantly to the secondary workers ’ separation from work.
upstream and embankments
The natural drainage in the upstream areas, other than the main river channels, is everywhere impeded by extensive embankments and polders.
upstream and being
In a statorless turbine the gasflow exiting an upstream rotor impinges onto a downstream rotor without an intermediate set of stator vanes ( that rearrange the pressure / velocity energy levels of the flow ) being encountered.
The line data rate is 2. 048 Mbit / s ( full duplex, i. e. 2. 048 Mbit / s downstream and 2. 048 Mbit / s upstream ) which is split into 32 timeslots, each being allocated 8 bits in turn.
Some have hypothesized that the legend of the Golden Fleece was based on a practice of the Black Sea tribes ; they would place a lamb's fleece at the bottom of a stream to entrap gold dust being washed down from upstream.
CWDM is also being used in cable television networks, where different wavelengths are used for the downstream and upstream signals.
The mill furthest upstream was Scole Flax Mill, although it was not a watermill, being powered by steam.
The river is also the location for several large marinas, the largest being the Port Hamble Marina and boat yards, situated on both banks as far upstream as Bursledon.
The original dam wall contains 100, 000 tons of concrete, over one million tons of earth and 100, 000 tons of clay for the core, the upstream face being stone faced.
An advantage of this to the molluscs is that they may be able to disperse upstream with their temporary hosts rather than being constantly swept downstream by the water flow.
These regulatory proteins bind to short stretches of DNA called regulatory regions or DNA binding sites, which are appropriately positioned in the genome, usually a short distance ' upstream ' of the gene being regulated.
Eventually, at about 6 pm, the French prepared for an attack, with Marc Antoine de Beaumont's cavalry being sent to ford the river upstream, and a column consisting of the 2nd battalion of carabiniers ( elite light infantry ) being readied inside the walls of the town.
With the exception of housing around the New Spring Gardens ( later Vauxhall Gardens ) pleasure park, opened in around 1661, the land at Vauxhall remained sparsely populated into the 19th century, with the nearest fixed river crossings being the bridges at Westminster, downstream, and Battersea, upstream.
The river has been navigable beyond Wadebridge with the highest quay being at Guineaport, and then beyond that at least as far as Pendavy a mile further upstream.
Walkways were added on each side, with the upstream one later being removed when the railway was widened.
The surge-induced triggering of MOVs can cause damage to an upstream device, such as an uninterruptible power supply ( UPS ), which typically sees an overload condition while the surge is being suppressed.
The Fedora community continues to thrive and the Fedora distribution has a reputation as being a FOSS distribution that focuses on innovation and close work with upstream Linux communities.
The initial binding site for Rho is an extended (~ 70 nucleotides, sometimes 80-100 nucleotides ) single-stranded region, rich in cytosine and poor in guanine, called the rho utilization site or rut, in the RNA being synthesised, upstream of the actual terminator sequence.
There are approximately 35. 4 million vehicle crossings annually, making it the second busiest bridge in Canada that is operated by the Federal Bridge Corporation Limited, the first being Champlain Bridge, just a few kilometres upstream.
In June, 1832, Henry Schoolcraft, who had been a member of the 1820 expedition, designated the source of the river as being further upstream at Lake Itasca, the source of the perennial stream.
In 1852 Parliament banned water from being taken from the Thames downstream of Teddington, forcing the Chelsea Waterworks Company to move upstream to Seething Wells.
Quays were built in 1424 ; with another quay, the Langport slip, being built in 1488 upstream of the Town Bridge.
The three Ocoee dams are numbered sequentially, with # 1 being the farthest downstream and # 3 being the farthest upstream.
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