A spillway is a section of a dam designed to pass water from the upstream side of a dam to the downstream side.

The flood gates across the openings are circular segments in cross section, and they operate by rotating, raised to allow " underspill " to allow operators to control upstream levels and a complete 180 degree rotation for maintenance.

The city got its name from a tree located on the bank of the St. Francis River until 1890 that had been slashed to mark a section of the river where Indians could walk about across land to reach the Little River and avoid paddling twelve miles ( 19 km ) upstream.

The subdivided regulating unit, the guide vane system in the turbine's upstream section, provides flexible operation, with 33, 66 or 100 % output, depending on the flow.

A feeder canal section ( which feeds water into the main canal ) stretches 22 miles ( 35 km ) northward from Trenton, upstream along the east bank of the Delaware to Bull's Island near Frenchtown.

Unless the upper limit of the falls is fixed well upstream, to include a long section of shallow-slope non-bedrock streambed, the rumoured height of 360-459m cannot be substantiated.

The national park itself contains the deepest and most dramatic section of the canyon, but the canyon continues upstream into the Curecanti National Recreation Area and downstream into the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area.

The upstream section known as the Big Eddy is a short segment upriver from the city of Bend between Dillon Falls and Lava Island Falls.

When the lake levels are high enough, a section of the lake farther upstream from the Gregg Basin is flooded, which includes Grand Wash Bay and the Pearce Ferry Bay and launch ramp.

They sailed about five miles upstream, reaching a wide section which Stirling named Melville Water.

A jet engine afterburner is an extended exhaust section containing extra fuel injectors, and since the jet engine upstream ( i. e., before the turbine ) will use little of the oxygen it ingests, the afterburner is, at its simplest, a type of ramjet.

In 1869, the Cook – Folsom – Peterson Expedition encountered the Lamar River ( East Fork ) just upstream from the canyon section flowing into the Yellowstone and traveled upstream to the confluence of Calfee Creek where they camped on September 16, 1869.

This section of the basin, upstream of the chokepoint created by the Little Falls and the Great Falls, occasionally fills with so much water that some of the Totowa Stage of Glacial Lake Passaic briefly reappears until enough time has gone by for the water to drain out.

Crabbing is particularly popular in the upstream Swimming river section.

The Wetzel family settled on a section far upstream from the Ohio River in a fairly isolated location.

This diversion arises because: firstly, the towpath used to cross the river at Bolney Ferry and return at Lashbrook Ferry a short way upstream ; secondly there is no easy access to rejoin the path for the section between Lashbrook Ferry and Shiplake Lock.

The Cheat Narrows section of the Cheat River ( upstream of Albright ) is also utilized by whitewater paddlers, and features Class II and III rapids.

Whitewater is most intense in the middle section of the river ( around Falcon Canyon and upstream ).

Farther upstream, the Precambrian upper section was a barrier difficult to overcome by the traders.

* Yabakei ( 耶馬渓 ), a section of river and valley that locates at the upstream and midstream of Yamakuni River ( 山国川 ), in Nakatsu, Ōita, Kyūshū

When the fluid within the displaced section is at rest, both the upstream and downstream portion of the displaced section will vibrate in phase with each other.

Gaedeke Lake is also a possible put in spot, but according to the Alaska River Guide, this upstream section near the headwaters of the river is shallow and rocky making portaging or lining necessary.

This allowed the southern section of the embankment ( upstream from Lambeth Bridge ) to include a pair of tunnels onto a small slipway, named White Hart Draw Dock, whose origins can be traced back to the 15th century.

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.

An upstream tailings dam consists of trapezoidal embankments being constructed on top but toe to crest of another, moving the crest further upstream.

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.

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.

In addition, there would have been constructed high-span bridges across the Demerara River at the same site as the Demerara Harbour Bridge, and the Berbice River upstream of Everton ; a series of bridges and causeways linking the islands in the mouth of the Essequibo River to Morasi on the East Bank and Supenaam on the West Bank ; and another high-span bridge across the Essequibo River at Monkey Jump.

One solution to this problem is to use a series of interlocks that allows stages to indicate that they are busy, pausing the other stages upstream.

* Heirisson Islands-a series of mudflats that were slightly more upstream from today's single man-made island which has deep channels on each side.

Burnside moved a pontoon bridge upstream from Loudon, allowing Union forces to cross the river and build a series of forts along the heights of South Knoxville, including Fort Stanley and Fort Dickerson.

Huntsville's southern boundary is located along a series of cliffs overlooking New River, approximately upstream from the river's mouth along the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River.

Two explanations have been given for the name of the town: One is that it was located halfway between Pennsylvania and a series of salt wells along the Kanawha River upstream of Charleston ; the other is that it is located midway between the source and the mouth of Middle Island Creek, which flows through the town.

Later, in the 1950s and 1960s, a series of locks and dams were constructed to extend navigation to points upstream.

It has been suggested that the conflict between the reported height and the surveyed topography of the area can be explained by the inclusion of a long series of cascades upstream from the waterfall.

There is also a series of smaller lakes further upstream.

Then they rowed upstream past a series of rapids, guarded by the fortified settlements at Novye Duboviki and Gorodishche.

The line passed through a series of small towns including Olho d ' Água das Flores and Delmiro Gouveia, before reaching its destination at Petrolândia, on the banks of the upper São Francisco, and approximately 80km upstream from Piranhas.

The underground course of the Ease Gill ( the local master cave ) and high-level fossil passages above it were found and followed upstream to a series of complex inlet passages.

The Jawahar Sagar dam is the third dam in the series of Chambal Valley Projects, located 29 km upstream of Kota city and 26 km downstream of Rana Pratap Sagar dam.

The Kota Barrage is the fourth in the series of Chambal Valley Projects, located about 0. 8 km upstream of Kota City in Rajasthan.

Located in Beauharnois-Salaberry Regional County Municipality within the cities of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Beauharnois, Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, and Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka, the canal connects Lake Saint-Francis to the west ( upstream ) with Lake Saint-Louis to the northeast ( downstream ), bypassing a series of rapids on the St. Lawrence River.

This was part of a series of fortifications built along the San Juan River in order to defend against pirate attacks upon the city of Granada ( which can be reached by navigating upstream from the Caribbean Sea along the San Juan River into Lake Nicaragua ).