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At flood, the river becomes an area flow source, far more than a narrow confined river.
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At the entrance to the sea, a flood protection system called Maeslantkering has been installed ( completed in 1997 ).
At the same time, Senegal and Mauritania have cooperated successfully with Mali under the Senegal River Development Office ( Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal — OMVS ), which was formed in 1972 as a flood control, irrigation, and agricultural development project.
At Elephantine the official nileometer, a measuring device, was carefully monitored to predict the level of the flood, and his priests must have been intimately concerned with its monitoring.
At its " typical Hollywood opening " it was said, " bright lights will flood the sky, bands will blare, and the theatre will be officially presented to Mayor Fred Borgwordt of the town of Homewood.
At least 2, 209 people died as a result of the flood and subsequent fire that raged through the debris.
At the same time, the New Bedford River was made wider and deeper, while some of the flood banks were also raised.
At many airports, windsocks are lighted at night, either by flood lights on top surrounding it or with one mounted on the pole shining inside it.
At flood stage, even rapids which are usually easy can contain lethal and unpredictable hazards ( briefly adapted from the American version of the International Scale of River Difficulty ).
At the east end of Painshill Park, the lower flood plain abruptly narrows to form a narrow trench approximately 60 m wide, in which the river runs northwards for towards Hersham, where the river enters the flood plain of the River Thames.
At such a time there is a flood of foreign material knocked from the borehole walls ( cavings ), making the mudloggers task all the more difficult.
At the same time the great push west along the newly opened Oregon Trail built up from a trickle of settlers in 1841 to a steady stream in 1844 – 1846, and then became a flood as the highly organized Mormon migration exploited the road to the Great Salt Lake discovered by mountain man Jim Bridger in 1847 – 1848.
At certain higher levels near flood state, almost all of the Cossatot Falls turn into one long rapid.
At the older American Falls Dam downstream, engineers increased discharge by less than 5 % before the flood arrived.
At two and a half minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928 the dam failed catastrophically and the resulting flood killed up to 600 people.
At the Conemaugh Viaduct, a high railroad bridge, the flood temporarily was stopped when debris jammed against the stone bridge's arch.
At its widest point in a big flood year the seasonal swamp stretches to 150 km across from east to west.
At the same time, the Agency took responsibility for issuing flood warnings to the public, a role previously held by the police.
At and river
At first there was no passenger service, for south of the station was the Akihabara cargo docks, where goods from all over the world would flow into Kanda by river and be hauled up the east bank of the canal to be ticketed at the central cargo transport window.
At the end of the rainy season in the fall, the river overflows its banks and creates a huge floodplain in the delta.
At a site simply named " The Sinks " in Sinks Canyon State Park, the river flows into a cave in a formation known as the Madison Limestone, and then rises again a half-mile down the canyon in a placid pool.
At the point where it makes its great bend the river meets the Chinchipe, which originates in southern Ecuador.
At the same time the Geological Society of America published the “ Physiography and Geology of Region Adjacent to the Nicaragua Canal Route ” in its Bulletin in May 1899 which stands to this day as one of the most detailed geological surveys of the San Juan river region.
At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi ( Ohio at Cairo: 281, 500 cu ft / s ( 7, 960 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s ); Mississippi at Thebes: 208, 200 cu ft / s ( 5, 897 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s )) and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream.
At the town of Mera, shortly before reaching Puyo, the river exits the mountains and flows into a wide valley, becoming wider and shallower.
At Phnom Penh it merges with the Tonle Sap and divides into two branches-the Sông Hậu Giang ( Hau Giang river ) ( known as the Bassac River on the Cambodian side ) and the Sông Tiền Giang ( Tien Giang river )-and continues through Cambodia and the Mekong basin before draining into the South China Sea through nine mouths known as the Cửu Long ( nine dragons ).
At this time, Augsburg was not quite touching the left bank of the river, upon which it was basically situated.
At 465 river miles ( 750 km ) from the Pacific Ocean at mouth of the Columbia River adjacent to Astoria, Oregon, the Port of Lewiston has the distinction of being the most inland seaport east of the West Coast and Idaho's only seaport.
At the end of the Crimean War, in 1856, by the Treaty of Paris, two districts of southern Bessarabia were returned to Moldavia, causing the Russian Empire to lose access to the Danube river.
At the summit of the Cerro del Obispado, north of the river, is the historic Bishopric Palace, site of one of the most important battles of the Mexican-American War.
At Kinzie Street, like some of the other river crossings, veered off to the side as the historic Kinzie bridge ( at the time of the tunnel construction ) was a pivoting bridge with a central pivot in the middle of the street.
At dangerous or difficult river crossings, ferries or toll bridges were set up and bad places on the trail were either repaired or bypassed.
At Teddington just before the tidal section of the river starts is Royal Canoe Club, said to be the oldest in the world and founded in 1866.
At Mělník its stream is more than doubled in volume by the Vltava, or Moldau, a river which winds northwards through Bohemia.
At Littleton, the river is impounded to form Chatfield Reservoir, a major source of drinking water for the Denver Metropolitan Area.
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