" However, most of the criticism is of the lack of actual special effects work, as most of it consists of stock footage from previous films, including Godzilla vs. Gigan and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, and a few pieces of effects work has garnered praise, specifically a scene where Megalon breaks through a dam and the draining of the lake.

Since Syria built a dam on the Euphrates, the flow of water has been considerably diminished and flooding was no longer a problem in the mid-1980s.

Each country has its own power station on the north and south bank of the dam respectively.

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 Pastaza has numerous tributaries, both above and below the hydroelectric dam.

The Dostluk dam, opened at Serakhs on the Iranian border in 2005, has increased available irrigation water and improved efficiency.

A dam on the Río Negro at Paso de los Toros has created a reservoir — the Embalse del Río Negro — that is the largest artificial lake in South America.

The dam has also become a " favorite spot " for predatory fish to congregate, feasting on the salmon that get trapped both above and below the dam.

The Dam Safety Interest Group of CEA Technologies, Inc. ( CEATI ), a consortium of electrical power organizations, has applied Spread-spectrum time-domain reflectometry to identify potential faults in concrete dam anchor cables.

The dam on the Kennebec was removed in 1999 and the area around the dam has been turned into a city park.

A human-made dam in the gorge has created Lake Crowley, a partial restoration of the original lake.

Near Barrage Cavagnac, there is a hydroelectric dam that has created the artificial lake Lalla Takerkoust.

This dam has major contribution in industrial development of Aurangabad Maharashtra.

The dam has created an artificial lake over a portion of the river, called Sapung Lake.

The Cornalvo Dam | Roman dam at Cornalvo in Spain has been in use for almost two millennia.

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.

While flowing from the sluices, coarse material is deposited first and then finer material is deposited ( fine material has a slower terminal velocity thus takes longer to settle, see Stoke's Law ) as the flow velocity is reduced towards the center of the dam.

Due to its effects on the way of life of the rural residents of the Angara valley, dam construction has been criticized by a number of Soviet intellectuals, in particular the Irkutsk writer Valentin Rasputin both in his novel Farewell to Matyora and in his non-fiction book, Siberia, Siberia.

Recently, the Gujarat government has announced its plans to build a 182 m tall statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel near the main dam, which will be the world's tallest statue.

At Trollhättan there is a dam, canal locks and a hydropower station in the river.

The original plans called for the dam to employ a unique method for moving ships ; the ships would move into locks located at the lower and upper ends of the dam and then cranes with cables would move the ships from one lock to the next.

Beside the dam itself, there was also the construction of shipping locks and discharge sluices at the ends of the dike.

The locks were subsequently submerged in 1938, replaced by Bonneville Lock and Dam, although the city lost no land from the expansion of Lake Bonneville behind the dam located some four miles ( 6 km ) downstream of the city.

A dam, two locks, and a mule bridge made it possible for boats to cross Northkill Creek.

The bottleneck in the river caused by the dam and canal locks caused the fish to be forced into one easy to reach location.

Baskets were placed along the dam and locks and tremendous amounts of fish and eels were easily caught.

The plaque notes that the 123-mile long Rideau Canal, built as a military route and incorporating 47 locks, 16 lakes, two rivers, and a, dam at Jones Falls ( Jones Falls Dam ), was completed in 1832.

Bonneville Dam, the first dam built on the Columbia, had locks built into it so ships could navigate past it, alleviating worries that a dam would prevent the shipment of goods and passengers along the length of the river.

Four locks and dams were constructed on the Green River, and one lock and dam was built on the Barren River, a tributary that passed through Bowling Green.

A feeder channel to supply water to the canal was cut through from the eastern dam to the top of the locks at Ogley Hay 1. 5 miles to the south east.

When the Corps of Engineers first built the locks and dam, they changed the natural drainage route of Lake Washington.

The locks and dam blocked all salmon runs out of the Cedar River watershed.

To correct this problem, the Corps built a fish ladder as the locks were constructed to allow salmon to pass around the locks and dam.

On others, it is quite objective, being caused by a waterfall or a dam without navigation locks.

Parts of the original locks from the canal, as well as remnants of a dam approximately 1 mile ( 2 km ) south of Millerstown, are still visible today.

The locks allow the passage of the large amounts of river shipping which would be blocked by the dam if the locks were not available.

See Three Gorges Dam locks for an image from that same tourist overlook showing the locks being built to allow the large amounts of river shipping to bypass the dam.

5727 in the House to name the dam and locks on the Ohio River near Gallipolis after Miller.

Calves are usually weaned at about eight to nine months of age, depending on the season and condition of the dam, they might be weaned earlier.

Their report states: " The Gwembe Tonga on the Zambian side and the Zimbabwean Tonga are one ; but due to separation brought about by the dam, they are now considered different people.

Kariva is a little trap and it is believed when those who wished to construct the dam wall wanted to explain the nature of the project to the locals they emphasised that they wanted to build a little water trap-Kariva.

When they arrive Min is captured by the Seanchan and Egwene is collared with an a ' dam, a device used by the Seanchan to control women who can channel.

Striped bass still continue the natural spawn run in freshwater lakes, traveling up river and blocked at the next dam, which is why they are landlocked.

Downstream from the Araguaia confluence, in the state of Pará, the river used to have many cataracts and rapids, but they were flooded in the early 1980s by the artificial lake created by the Tucuruí dam, one of the world's largest.

The largest and most elaborate flood defences can be found in the Netherlands, where they are referred to as Delta Works with the Oosterschelde dam as its crowning achievement.

Apart from that, they displayed a high degree of inventiveness, introducing most of the other basic dam designs which had been unknown until then.

They allow to increase the normal pool of the dam without compromising the security of the dam because they are designed to be gradually evacuated for exceptional events.

Canoeists can contact the dam company and arrange to be towed around the dams on company trucks, but they must make arrangements specific to the hour, and they cannot be late.

Beaver eradication in Tierra del Fuego | Beavers from North America constitute an invasive species in Tierra del Fuego, where they have a substantial impact on landscape and local ecology through beaver dam | their dams.

Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.

When they jump into a sewer system, only Willenholly himself follows them while the other police officers, led by the Sheriff ( Judd Nelson ), leave him, and he is soon tricked into jumping off of a dam.

Fredonia was originally started in 1885 as a business venture by five men who invested time, money, and energy to build a dam so they could create farmland under irrigation.

The developers bought several tracts of the former Newton Flat settlement when they heard the government planned to build a flood-control and power-generating concrete dam at the site.

These rivers are ' wild ', in that they are not controlled by any dam upstream.

In 2011, the Waltonville Lake dam busted again, so they drained the lake and now it's a big ole hole in the ground.

In 1806, they built a dam and watermills on the Pleasant River.

They thought it would be better to divide the township and Ed took about 200 men who were working on Stronach dam over to vote and they won their point.

During the months they had been away from their land, several settlers had moved into the area, building a dam and a sawmill.

By the early 1920s the handwriting was on the wall, a dam was to be built and the valley to be flooded, many more people moved away knowing they would lose their homes anyway.