When dam construction began in 1933, fewer than 600 boats used these waters ; ;

The amount of concrete used in the construction of the dam is estimated at 16 million cubic meters over 17 years.

Under some conditions, forests and peat bogs may become sources of CO < sub > 2 </ sub >, such as when a forest is flooded by the construction of a hydroelectric dam.

As a result of the dam's construction, the Nile actually begins its flow into Egypt as Lake Nasser, which extends southwards from the dam for 320 km to the border and for an additional 158 km within Sudan.

The construction industry is growing, as projects range from the construction and expansion of power plants ; road, airport, and dam construction ; upgrading sea ports ; and the construction of schools and hospitals.

Notable amongst these projects were the construction of the Petronas Twin Towers ( at the time the tallest building in the world, and, as of 2010, still the tallest twin building ), KL International Airport ( KLIA ), the North-South Expressway, the Sepang International Circuit, the Multimedia Super Corridor ( MSC ), the Bakun hydroelectric dam and Putrajaya, the new federal administrative capital.

The construction of the dam was endorsed in 1959, however, after the purge of relatively liberal and nationally oriented leaders under Eduards Berklavs and their replacement by Moscow-oriented, ideologically conservative cadres led by Arvīds Pelše.

Investments include the expansion of irrigated agriculture to improve food security, the construction of the Taoussa ( or Tossaye ) dam in Mali and the Kandadji Dam in Niger ( the latter has been under construction since August 2008 ), as well as the rehabilitation of the Kainji dam and Jebba dam in Nigeria.

The construction produced a tremendous economic boom, as thousands of Paraguayans who had never before held a regular job went to work on the enormous dam.

Biso Kotuwa, a peculiar construction inside a dam, is a technological marvel based on precise mathematics, allowing water to flow outside the dam keeping the pressure to a minimum.

Though Seoul completed a " Peace Dam " on the Pukhan River to counteract the potential threat of Pyongyang's dam project before the 1988 Olympics, the North Korean project apparently still was in its initial stages of construction in 1990.

Liberal attacks concentrated on the slow process of infrastructure development under Bracks ( notably on water supply issues relating to the severe drought affecting Victoria in the election leadup ), and new Liberal leader Ted Baillieu promised to start construction on a range of new infrastructure initiatives, including a new dam on the Maribyrnong River and a desalination plant.

After the United Kingdom and the United States withdrew their pledge to support the construction of the Aswan Dam due to Egyptian overtures towards the Soviet Union, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal in 1956 and transferred it to the Suez Canal Authority, intending to finance the dam project using revenue from the canal.

More industrialized and urbanized, but still quite poor, were the departments of Soriano and Salto, which, as noted previously, benefited from the construction of a bridge and a dam, respectively, across the Río Uruguay in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Prior to the construction of a dam at the resurgence to feed water to the paper mill downstream, two more chambers ( the Fourth and Fifth ) were accessible.

** An avalanche buries a dam construction site at Saas-Fee, Switzerland killing 90 workers.

An inquiry after the disaster revealed that Arthur Jell, who oversaw the construction, neglected basic safety tests, such as filling the tank with water to check for leaks.

The Fort Peck Dam is an example of a hydraulic fill dam that failed during construction where the hydraulic filling process may have contributed to the failure.

New life is showing up with our new Post Office one new home nearing completion, several under construction, a new filling station underway, and the new Junior-Senior high school nearing completion.

This has made housing construction relatively easy, although flooding at the head of the valley has been a problem in the past due to the reverse slope caused by the sand dunes filling the front of the valley.

* 1964: First dam construction stage completed, reservoir started filling

Water utilities often require them for measurement of water used in construction, pool filling, or where a permanent meter is not yet installed.

The bay itself has been disturbed by dredging, filling, and development, including the construction of John F. Kennedy International Airport and, earlier, the historic ( and now defunct ) Floyd Bennett Field.

Melton Mowbray itself had six recorded crosses the construction of which spanned several centuries: ( i ) Kettleby Cross, ( close to the present Total filling station near the junction of Dalby Road to the Leicester Road ), ( ii ) Sheep Cross, on what was Spital End, ( now Nottingham Street / Park Road Junction, ( iii ) Corn Cross at the Swine Lane / Spittle End junction, ( reconstructed and reinstated on the Nottingham St / High St junction in 1996 as a memorial to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps ), ( iv ) Butter Cross or High Cross, at the west end of Beast Market ,( again reconstructed from partial remains of the original Saxon cross in 1986 / 7 in the Market Place ), ( v ) Sage Cross, at the East end of the Beast Market close to Salt gate ,( on Sherrard Street opposite Sage Cross Street ), and ( vi ) Thorpe Cross at the end of Saltgate ( near the junction of Thorps Road and Saxby Road ).

However, snows were heavy that winter, and five months later the project's construction engineer requested permission to double the filling rate in order to deal with the additional spring run-off, while continuing to inspect for leaks and monitor the groundwater.

The building of shore management structures ( dikes, groins, seawalls ), the spraying of DDT ( and other pesticides ) to control the mosquito problem, the carving of ditches to drain wetlands, the filling of shore lowlands, the channelization of creeks, highway and sewer construction, neighborhood development, and a myriad point and non-point sources of household, automobile, industrial chemicals, and ocean dumping all contributed to growing toxicity of the bay.

In the mid-20th century, a few milk products were packaged in nearly rimless cans, reflecting different construction ; in this case, one flat surface had a hole ( for filling the nearly complete can ) that was sealed after filling with a quickly solidifying drop of molten solder.

Today, only the inside construction remains of his pyramid and remain partly visible in a pile of rubble originating from the crude filling of debris and mortar behind the casing stones taken away a thousand years ago.

Since the construction of the Clyde Dam and the filling of Lake Dunstan in the early 1990s the river confluence was drowned, as was the old town centre.

In October 1959 construction was completed and in February 1960 SADE was authorised to start filling the basin.

Beneath the filling, there are earlier construction phases of the naves.

Among the works proposed under the project were an expansion of the massive Prado Dam, which despite filling to capacity did not fully prevent heavy flooding damages in Orange County, and the construction of the $ 530 million " Mentone Dam " across the Santa Ana north of Mentone in San Bernardino County.

Also, a second exit liaising directly with Wangjing is under construction ; it is very close to the Wangjing filling station on the ring road ( clockwise direction again ).

The bay itself was originally the easterly entrance to Coney Island Creek, but filling of the central part of this waterway during the 1930s in conjunction with construction of the Shore Parkway portion of the Belt Parkway eliminated access to the creek.

Many of the animals rescued during Operation Noah when Lake Kariba was filling ( following the construction of Kariba Dam ) were released into Matusadona, which now holds strong populations of most mammals occurring in the Zambezi Valley.

The lake was formed on the Clutha River as a result of the construction of the Clyde Dam, filling in four controlled stages beginning in April 1992 and completed the next year.

An article in Science suggested that the construction and filling of the Zipingpu Dam may have triggered the earthquake ..

With the exception of the aforementioned filling of certain holes, the actual external structure of the mountain remains largely unchanged from its original construction.

The construction work ( including the filling of low-lying areas of the city in order to avoid flooding, construction of 11 major bridges, embankments and viaducts at a height of 5 – 10 metres, and the actual laying of track etc.

Many prominent individuals opposed the construction of the dam at that time because of the damage it would do to Seneca lands, including Pennsylvania Congressman John P. Saylor of Johnstown, and Howard Zahniser, executive director of The Wilderness Society and native of Tionesta — a small settlement located along the Allegheny River several miles downstream from Warren.

The community was founded in 1902 when a railroad construction camp for the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad was built and named in honor of Charles W. Gilbert, secretary-treasurer of Allegheny Supply Company, which was building the railroad.

One of these groups, the Community Economic Development Corporation of Clairton ( CEDCC ), in conjunction with Allegheny County, the Allegheny County Housing Authority, and state government, recently finished construction of a single-family housing development to encourage people to own rather than rent.

Brookville's many streams and its connection to larger rivers ( the Clarion and later, the Allegheny ) allowed for extensive construction of lumber mills along the watersheds and the floating of timber to markets in Pittsburgh.

Begun in 1960, construction of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River forced the relocation of approximately 600 Seneca from of land which they had occupied under the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua.

He worked as a construction engineer for the Allegheny Portage Railroad.

Prior to the construction of this version of Exposition Park, two previous ballparks of the same name were similarly situated along the Allegheny.

However, 10, 000 acres of the Allegheny Reservation were legally condemned for eminent domain during construction of Kinzua Dam, causing relocation of 600 Seneca.

On May 6, 1836 an act was passed in New York authorizing the construction of the Genesee Valley Canal, running from the Erie Canal in Rochester southwest along the Genesee River valley to Mount Morris, Portageville, and Belfast, and then cross-country to the Allegheny River at Olean, with a branch from Mount Morris paralleling the Canaseraga Creek to Dansville.